California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday that the state has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to reclassify four Clean Air Act preemption waivers.<\/p>\n
The waivers include the 2008 greenhouse gas emission standards waiver, the Advanced Clean Cars I (ACC I) waiver, the 2022 reinstatement of portions of the ACC I waiver and the 2022 Small Off-Road Engine rule amendment.<\/p>\n
The waivers allow California to implement emissions standards that are stricter than federal requirements. The Environmental Protection Agency originally granted the waivers as “orders.”<\/p>\n
The agency is now reclassifying those orders as “rules.”<\/p>\n
State officials argue the change carries significant consequences.<\/p>\n
“This may sound very technical, and it is, but it’s also a critical distinction. Orders aren’t subject to expedited congressional disapproval,” Bonta said. “Rules, however, are subject to expedited congressional disapproval.”<\/p>\n
Bonta argues the EPA lacks the legal authority to reclassify the waivers and is exceeding its authority in what he described as an effort to undermine California’s clean-air policies and environmental progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday that the state has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-370521","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\/370521","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=370521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}