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House Votes To Repeal EPA Waiver for California’s 2035 EV Mandate, Paving Way For Federal Repeal

May 1, 2025 2:24 pmMay 1, 2025 2:24 pm

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 246-164 Thursday to end the Environmental Protection Agency waiver that federally approved of California’s 2035 gas-powered car ban. The vote paves the way for a total federal ban on the mandate and allows new...

Automaker Group Joins House Republicans In Attempt To Stop California’s 2035 Gas-Powered Car Mandate

April 29, 2025 1:14 pmApril 29, 2025 1:14 pm

The push to federally end California’s 2035 gas-powered car sales ban gained considerable traction this week as Congressional Republicans were joined by major trade groups to repeal an Biden Administration era Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waiver that approved of California’s...

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 That’s one way of acknowledging that the benevolent California Air Resources Board has withdrawn the federal waiver to enact emissions limits that...