Supreme Court joins Trump and GOP in targeting California’s emission standards
Washington – On Friday, the Supreme Court joined the Republic of Congress and Congress at the Petroleum and Gas Industry and Siding to challenge California’s efforts towards electric vehicles.
In a 7-2 decision, justice Re -revived the industry’s case And he decided that fuel manufacturers were standing to sue California’s strict emission standards.
The case argued that the Environmental Protection Agency under California and President Biden abused the 1970s rule to fight smoke to fight the climate change in the 21st century.
California’s new emission standards ” local California air quality problem-as they say, is required by the clean air life-designed to be handled instead. spherical Climate Change, ”Justice Brett Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote using italics to describe the position of the industry.
The court did not decide the case against him, but he said that fuel producers should filed a lawsuit for the state’s rule.
Kavanaugh, “fuel manufacturers earn money by selling fuel. Therefore, California arrangements caused by gasoline and other fluid fuels in the procurement of decrease in the profitability of the profitability,” he said.
Just Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson don’t agree.
Jackson questioned why the court would revive the case of the fuel industry that everyone will soon discuss (and already controversial).
The result, however, was left in the shadow by the latest actions of Trump and Congress Republicans.
With the support of Trump, the Assembly and the Senate accepted the approved regulations accepted by the Biden administration, which would not allow California to implement wide new arrangements to require “zero emissions” cars and trucks.
Trump said that the new rules adopted by the congress were designed to be the leader of the country in the fight against California’s air pollution and greenhouse gases.
In the White House, the invoice signing ceremony, the non -approved measures, “California’nın electric vehicle task implementation and carbon emissions by organizing the national fuel economy attempt to prevent attempt to organize,” he said.
“Our Constitution does not allow a state special status to form standards that limit consumer selection and apply electric vehicle tasks to the whole nation,” he said.
In response to Friday’s decision, California Atty. General Rob Bonda, “the struggle for the fresh air struggle is far from ending. The high court’s decision to allow the progress of this case in the lower court, but California’nın Clean Air Life will continue to defend strongly,” he said.
Some environmentalists said the decision has enlightened future future cases from industrial and pollutants.
“This is a dangerous precedent from a court of hell on protecting institutional interests, Dav said David Pettit, a lawyer of the Biological Diversity Climate Law Institute. “This decision opens the door of more oil industry case that attacks the inhabitants of the states and their ability to protect their wild lives from climate change.”
Times staff writer Tony Briscoe in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
