The Senate to cancel California’s ability to set air pollution standards

The Republicans in the Senate voted from 51 to 44 to pick up a waiver California allowed to set strict air pollution standards for vehicles. The state received exemptions More than 100 times Since federal laws have given the right about 50 years ago.

Sixteen other states and Colombia province He follows California emissions, most of which carried out the stage of fossil fuel vehicles. Other Senate votes eliminated today the concessions that allowed California to set strict emissions standards for medium and heavy vehicles.

The mandate of the so -called EV in California is actually the standard of zero emissions. Starting in 2026, the country would have started increasing sales of zero emissions and passenger trucks until 2035, when car manufacturers must only sell zero emissions.

Currently, two techniques qualify: hydrogen fuel cells and electric cars for the battery. Given Increased pain Fuel cells and hydrogen filling networks were suffering from this, EVS soon became the actual approach to meet the deadline for the year 2035 in California.

Last year, 25.3 % of the new light vehicles In California is qualified as zero emissions, almost all of them EVS. State state They said It will be “impossible”.

The growth of ZEV sales in California was in 2024, although previous years were different, as the share increased from 7.8 % in 2020 to 25 % in 2023.

On Thursday, voting has exceeded the precedence by facing the advice of Parliament in the Senate and the Government Accounting Office, which both eliminated that the waiver cannot be canceled under the Congress Review Law. CRA allows the simple majority vote on a decision to cancel the list, allowing the Senate voting to move forward without threatening filbuster.

Previously, California Public Prosecutor Rob Punta was “ready for Republican preparation” to cancel the emissions via CRA. And he told Politico In early March.