Re:Trump is going after California’s clean car mandate
by bikezen on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:52AM
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There is nothing preventing it, they've all just decided California rules meet their same goals, and it is more advantageous for them to share the same rules than expand further.
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Re:Trump is going after California’s clean car mandate
by dahdum on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:59AM
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Yes there is, 49 states must seek policy exemptions from the EPA and win approval for them, while California has no such burden. CA gets a perpetual exemption allowing them freedom no other state gets.
Edit: I was actually wrong here, no other state may even ask for a waiver.
> This power is reserved alone for California, and it only covers pollution from cars. No other state can ask for a waiver. (In all of federal law, this might be the only time that a specific state is given special authority under such a major statute.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/trump-ca...
Re:Trump is going after California’s clean car mandate
by kyrra on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:02AM
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Then maybe another state could sue and possibly get make it so all states could get a waiver (since it sounds at least a little like the ports betting law):
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/supreme-court...