Trump’s California Attack

From Alejandro Lazo and Alejandra Reyes-BellardeCalmness

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California regulators, meeting the Trump administration attacks on the state’s climate policy, suggest that they give up in part, asking MPs to fill in stimuli for electric vehicles, recommend more private investment and start writing rules for clean cars.

“The efforts of clean air are under siege, putting the health of every American at risk,” said Lian Randolph Air Resources President. “California continues to struggle and will not give up more clean air and better public health. We have a legal and moral obligation.”

Several government agencies Jointly send the recommendations In response to GAVIN NEWSOM governor June executive order Calling for California to double its efforts to move from fossil fuels.

Proposals, discovered Tuesday, also include the replacement of the expired EV tax loans – a difficult inquiry in a difficult budget year – and restoration of access to the car lane, which will require federal approval. One recommendation seeks to expand the access to charging vehicles by rationalizing utilities and simplifying new stations permits.

The Air Board progresses only a few regulatory ideas: one to apply stronger users’ protection for clean car owners and the other to limit diesel pollution from freight centers such as ports and warehouses. Randolph also said the board would start working as a new rule for clean cars.

A governor spokesman said he would review the agencies’ report.

The recommendations reflect the heavy shift that the state has experienced from a supportive administration of Biden to hostile to President Trump, said Guillermo Ortiz, a senior defender of pure vehicles for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“When you have your federal government using every instrument, available to attack your own country … How can you see every angle of attack, every vector, anything that this administration is ready to do to harm California?” he said. “It’s hard.”

Other experts also said they were expecting more. “People familiar with this type of policy will read it and feel … undermined,” ” wrote Earthjustice’s lawyer Adrian Martinez when analyzing the plan.

“Nothing pops me up like particularly aggressive,” says Daniel Sperling, a former member of the Air Resources Board, who is the director of the UC Davis Transport Research Institute. “I’m actually puzzled because they had acted as if they would really do something meaningful.”

Cargo Carriage Deal collapses

California suggested medicines like a Reserve after the Trump Administration has announced that it will cancel federal refusals Issued under the Clean Air Act, which has long allowed the state to set more aggressive standards for cars and trucks.

Attacks against state climate policies have escalated last week focused on Purely partnership for trucks, A voluntary transaction between the main truck manufacturers and the country that will continue to progress zero -emission truck technology, even if the failure programs have fallen.

Last week, four manufacturers filed a case, striving to dissolve their partnership commitments. The Federal Commercial Committee, after launching an investigation into the California program, announced the partnership inapplicableS

Days later, the Trump Ministry of Justice intervene In two lawsuits, arguing that the decision whether to ban engines with internal communication in heavy trucks is eventually resting in the federal government.

California climate policies are important most in communities near ports, warehouses and rails, where diesel pollution suffocates the air, Ortiz said of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Exhaust gases are a major source of risk of cancer and drives respiratory and heart disease.

Without the authority to make aggressive rules or strong voluntary measures such as the partnership for clean trucks, experts say the transition to less polluting trucks can be delayed.

Call for more bored actions

Experts who have called for more daring action said the state has more power than it used its executive and legislative branches.

Sperling said the state can better deter car cars with Febate Program, which may charge high-pollution vehicles to pay for discounts for clean cars.

“If you really want to put your money where your mouth is, I think it really Superans these Transport Advance Programs can be a massively successful strategy,” said Martinez, who directs Earthjustice’s campaign to this purpose.

Martinez said that the state can better structure existing state programs, including the low carbon fuel content and the state restriction and trade program to pay for electric cars and trucks.

“California should not flash” while Trump’s administration is moving “aggressively,” he added.

Ethan Elkind, who runs the Climate Program at the UC Berkeley Right, Energy and Environment Center, said the state tightening of the rules for tightening the rules in warehouses and other pollution magnets can achieve similar goals on the mandate of the truck.

Elkind insisted on a further. If the Federal Government gets out of the tube emissions business and the creation of an air -conditioning policy, he added, California can fill this vacuum in the future.

“The state can take a rather aggressive approach here,” he added.

The chairman of the Air Resources board Randolph said California was not inferior, although she acknowledged that the development of a new rule for a clean car aimed at gradually removing gas cars could take time.

“Because these rules occupy two, three, sometimes even four years, we decided that it would be good to start this process now and have it … Be prepared, ideally for a more susceptible US EPA,” Randolph said.

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