Administrative/Regulatory,
Environmental & Energy,
Government
Oct. 2, 2019
The auto emissions war against California
The Trump administration’s waiver revocation is unwanted by anyone but President Trump (along with, perhaps, Big Oil, which alone stands to benefit financially from higher polluting, less efficient vehicles).
Richard M. Frank
Professor of Environmental Practice
UC Davis School of Law
Richard is director of the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at the UC Davis School of Law.
Blatantly illegal. Vindictive. Retaliatory. Spiteful. Or, as California Gov. Gavin Newsom aptly described it, a "weaponization of the USEPA."
All these terms accurately characterize the Trump administration's recent action to eliminate the state of California's longstanding authority under the federal Clean Air Act to adopt auto emission standards for California that are more stringent than the national standards set by the federal g...
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