{"id":59947,"date":"2023-09-15T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59947"},"modified":"2023-09-15T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T19:15:15","slug":"california-defends-right-to-fight-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59947","title":{"rendered":"California Defends Right to Fight Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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SACRAMENTO\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Today, California defended its clean car standards from a challenge led by Republicans and the fossil fuel industry in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGovernor Ronald Reagan created the nation\u2019s first clean air regulator here in California, and President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act to preserve our right to keep driving efforts to cut pollution,\u201d\u00a0said Governor Gavin Newsom.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cBut the Republicans of today reject the idea that pollution is bad and clean air is good, trying to use the courts to legislate their backwards ideology. We\u2019re going to fight like hell to preserve that once-bipartisan tradition and leave our communities better off for our kids and their grandkids.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“The attacks on California\u2019s current and historical efforts to address vehicle pollution of all kinds are misguided and misplaced,”\u00a0said Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cVehicle pollution continues to be a pressing problem in California. I\u2019m grateful that my team was in court this week vigorously defending the progress we have made and our ability to keep moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress has long preserved California\u2019s ability to regulate vehicle emissions within the state and provide solutions to communities that for decades have endured some of the worst pollution in the nation,\u201d\u00a0said California Air Resources Board (CARB) Chair Liane Randolph.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cOur regulations have propelled innovation in vehicle-emission control technologies that help clean the air Californians breathe. We look forward to the court affirming more than 50 years of that Congressional choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case centers on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) decision last year to allow California to continue implementing its clean car rules via a waiver under the Clean Air Act.\u00a0California was also in court yesterday standing alongside the Biden-Harris Administration to defend\u00a0federal clean car standards.<\/p>\n

CALIFORNIA\u2019S ZEV RECORD<\/h2>\n

Since the Governor\u2019s executive order in 2020 requiring all new car sales to be zero-emission by 2035, ZEV sales have\u00a0risen dramatically<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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