Supreme Court joins Trump and GOP in targeting California’s emission standards
Washington – On Friday, the Supreme Court joined President Trump and the Republicans of the Congress to line up on the side of the petroleum and gas industry in its challenge to the driving of California for electric vehicles.
In a 7-2 decision, the judges relaunched the industry trial and decided that the fuel manufacturers had expressed themselves to continue the strict standards of California emissions.
The trial argued that California and the Environmental Protection Agency under President Biden abused their power by relying on the rule of the 1970s to combat SMOG as a means of fighting climate change in the 21st century.
The new California program standards “have not targeted a local California aerial problem problem – as they say required by the clean Act – but have rather been designed to approach global Climate Change, ”wrote Brett judge Mr. Kavanaugh, using italics to describe the position of the industry.
The court did not rule on the trial itself, but he declared that the fuel manufacturers had placed themselves to continue because they would be injured by the reign of the state.
“Fuel producers earn money by selling fuel. Therefore, the reduction in petrol purchases and other liquid fuels resulting from Californian regulations harm their results,” said Kavanaugh.
Only judges Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson disagreed.
Jackson asked why the court “would rekindle an industrial trial by fuel which is completely agree will soon be without object (and is already largely without object).
But the result was overshadowed by the recent actions of Trump and the Congress Republicans.
With the support of Trump, the Chamber and the Senate adopted disapproving measures of the regulations adopted by the Biden administration which would have enabled California to enforce the new general regulations to demand cars and “null emissions” trucks.
Trump said the new rules adopted by the congress have been designed to move California as a head of the country in the fight against air pollution and greenhouse gases.
During a ceremony for signing bills to the White House, he said that disapproval measures “will prevent California’s attempt from imposing a national electric vehicle mandate and regulating the national fuel economy by regulating carbon emissions.”
“Our Constitution does not allow a special status of State to create standards that limit the choice of consumers and impose an electric vehicle mandate throughout the country,” he said.
In response to Friday’s decision, California Atty. General Rob Bonta said: “The fight for clean air is far from over. Although we are disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision to authorize this case to advance before the lower court, we will continue to vigorously defend the authority of California under the Clean Act. ”
Some environmentalists have said that the Greenlights decision of future prosecution of industry and polluters.
“This is a dangerous precedent of a Hellbent of the Court on the protection of interests of companies,” said David Pettit, a lawyer at the Center for Biological Diversity Center for Climate. “This decision opens the door to more legal proceedings from the oil industry attacking the ability of states to protect their residents and fauna against climate change.”
Staff editor Tony Briscoe in Los Angeles has contributed to this report.
