{"id":362685,"date":"2026-06-16T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362685\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:02:09","slug":"california-waivers-face-bumpy-future-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362685\/","title":{"rendered":"California waivers face bumpy future in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s latest attack on California\u2019s vehicle emissions standards faces a complicated path to congressional approval \u2014 and already some warning signs are emerging in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>EPA <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/eenews\/2026\/06\/15\/epa-incites-another-hill-fight-over-california-waivers-00961586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last week submitted<\/a> four California air pollution rule waivers to Congress, where Republicans can use the Congressional Review Act to overturn them. It follows a successful push by the GOP last year to nullify three Biden-era waivers for California.<\/p>\n<p>The Clean Air Act allows the state to set stricter pollution rules than the federal government with EPA approval. Several other states follow California\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years California has weaponized the Clean Air Act to push far-left environmental policies, raising costs and limiting choices for families and businesses to purchase the vehicles and equipment they want and need,\u201d House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration\u2019s latest attack on California\u2019s vehicle emissions standards faces a complicated path to congressional approval \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-362685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}