California is taking the Trump administration to court again, this time over the administration’s blocking of the state’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars. [emphasis, links added]
The state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, announced that his office and 10 other states filed this latest lawsuit minutes after President Donald Trump signed a resolution that blocked the ban.
The lawsuit will be considered by the U.S District Court.
State leaders have said the federal government is violating the law, as California has had the authority for decades to set its own clean air rules.
“It’s been a disaster for this country,” Trump said as he signed the resolution. “We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.”
“Trump’s all-out assault on California continues – and this time he’s destroying our clean air and America’s global competitiveness in the process. We are suing to stop this latest illegal action by a President who is a wholly-owned subsidiary of big polluters,” Newsom said in a written statement.
It’s the 26th lawsuit California has filed against the Trump administration. Bonta told reporters the state so far has spent $5 million on the lawsuits filed since Trump took office in January.
The state Legislature and governor earlier this year provided Bonta’s office with $25 million for court challenges against the administration.
“While there is some expenditure, I want to highlight the results,” Bonta said, noting the state is working to save billions in federal funds it would otherwise lose if the Trump administration’s overall actions were to move forward.
The president signed the resolution after it was approved with votes in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Neither California voters nor California’s state lawmakers voted specifically for the clean air rule that would ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.
The governor signed an executive order in 2020 that empowered the state’s unelected California Air Resources Board [CARB] to set the rules.
The California Legislature has given the air board broad authority to create clean air rules and has approved legislation that sets goals to reduce the state’s carbon emissions.
CARB has been under scrutiny from Democrats in California’s Legislature recently, with concerns that the board has not been considering how the rules it creates could impact costs to consumers.
Some are pushing to scale back the air board’s power. Others have called for the resignation of the board’s leader, Liane Randolph.
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