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Senate votes to revoke California’s ability to set air pollution standards
The state was to require increasing sales of zero-emissions cars and passenger trucks starting in 2026.
Other Senate votes today repealed waivers for that allowed California to set stricter emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Given the growing pains that fuel cells and hydrogen filling networks have been experiencing, EVs quickly became the de facto approach to meeting California’s 2035 deadline. The vote on Thursday bucked precedence by going against the advice of the Senate parliamentarian and the Government Accountability Office, which both had ruled that the waiver could not be revoked under the Congressional Review Act.
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