{"id":370338,"date":"2026-06-22T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370338\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:45:10","slug":"california-sues-us-epa-over-sending-emissions-rules-to-congress-for-potential-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370338\/","title":{"rendered":"California sues US EPA over sending emissions rules to Congress for potential reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) &#8211; The state of California \u200csued the U.S. \u200cEnvironmental Protection Agency on Monday after \u200bthe agency sent the Republican-controlled Congress landmark state vehicle emissions rules for \u200cpotential \u2060repeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The EPA said waivers under the Clean \u2060Air Act for California environmental regulations approved under \u200bprior Democratic \u200badministrations \u200bshould have \u200cbeen sent to lawmakers under the Congressional Review Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">California said the action was illegal and should be \u200cblocked by \u200bthe U.S. District \u200bCourt \u200bin Washington, arguing \u200cthat the EPA \u200bwas seeking \u200bto &#8220;wave a magic wand&#8221; and turn a \u200bwaiver \u200cinto a rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by \u200bDavid Shepardson; Editing by \u200bMark Porter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) &#8211; The state of California \u200csued the U.S. \u200cEnvironmental Protection Agency on Monday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,150129,9585,4818,150128,8603,12869],"class_list":["post-370338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-congressional-review-act","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-epa","tag-republican-controlled-congress-landmark","tag-state-of-california","tag-vehicle-emissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370338","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=370338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}