California has joined other states in filing a second lawsuit against the administration for revoking the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
California and a coalition of other states filed another lawsuit against the Trump administration Friday challenging its move to revoke their ability to set tougher auto emissions standards than the federal government.
California was joined by 22 other states, Washington, D.C., and the cities of Los Angeles and New York in the suit challenging the administration’s September move to take away the state’s ability to set stricter emissions rules as part of an ongoing attack on government efforts to clean air pollution and fight climate change. It’s the latest jab in the legal battle between California and other like-minded states as they try to stymie Trump’s push to weaken a host of environmental regulations.
In that previous lawsuit, California and other allied states challenged federal transportation officials’ findings that the state’s emissions standards were essentially operating as fuel economy rules and preempted by the federal government’s regulations. Friday’s lawsuit challenges the related decision, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to revoke California’s waiver that allowed the state to set its own, tougher emissions standards.
For decades, California has used its special status under the federal Clean Air Act to obtain waivers from the U.S. EPA to set its own, more stringent standards, a process the state and others that adhere to them argue is essential to improve air quality and fight climate change. “We will be asking the court to declare that our right to demand cleaner cars and trucks is protected under the federal Clean Air Act and cannot be taken away by the Trump Administration simply because they don’t believe in the science of climate change — or because they want to punish us for taking action,” California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols said in a statement.
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