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Government Accountability Office Blocks Potential Congressional Repeal Of California EV Rules

March 7, 2025 2:45 amMarch 7, 2025 2:46 am

The Government Accountability Office announced Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s emissions waiver request sent last month to Congress for review is not reviewable by them and that the previous Biden Administration’s approval of California’s mandate to ban the sale...

The Impending End of the 2035 Gas-Powered Car Ban Mandate

February 18, 2025 12:43 pmFebruary 18, 2025 12:43 pm

The latest chapter of the battle against California’s 2035 gas-powered car ban began last week following EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin saying that he would subject the agency’s approval of those California regulations to congressional scrutiny. Essentially, all those things former...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Ban on Gas Powered Cars is Dead

February 16, 2025 5:35 pmFebruary 17, 2025 6:19 am

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just sent California’s vehicle emissions waiver request to Congress for review. This is big and kills California Governor Gavin Newsom’s ban on gas-powered vehicles. In December, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on orders from the Biden...

Benevolent CA Air Resources Board Withdraws Federal Waiver Allowing Truck Drivers to Stay in Business

January 15, 2025 7:44 amJanuary 15, 2025 9:31 am

“California has no choice but to abandon its groundbreaking rules for zero-emission trucks and cleaner locomotives,” CalMatters reports. That’s one way of acknowledging that the benevolent California Air Resources Board has withdrawn the federal waiver to enact emissions limits that...

State ZEV Truck Sales Goals Are Two Years Ahead Of Schedule According To New CARB Data

October 24, 2023 12:08 pmOctober 24, 2023 12:08 pm

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Governor Gavin Newsom’s office announced on Monday that the state’s zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) goal for trucks was two years ahead of schedule, with 7.5% of all new trucks sold in California in 2022...

CARB & Truck Makers Announce Agreement On Zero Emissions Vehicles

July 6, 2023 1:16 pmJuly 6, 2023 1:16 pm

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and a large coalition of truck makers, the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA), announced on Thursday that they have reached an agreement on meeting the state’s plan to have only new zero-emissions trucks...

California To Ban Sale Of All New Diesel Trucks, Buses Beginning In 2036

April 29, 2023 2:24 amApril 29, 2023 6:54 am

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced on Friday that the sale of all new diesel big rig trucks and buses are to be banned in the state of California starting in 2036, coming in a year after a similar...