{"id":437670,"date":"2026-08-19T21:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437670\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:48:24","slug":"california-epa-argue-over-clean-air-act-waiver-reclassification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437670\/","title":{"rendered":"California, EPA Argue Over Clean Air Act Waiver Reclassification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration and California argued in front of a federal judge Wednesday over whether the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s efforts to reclassify Clean Air Act waivers, granted to the state as rules, constitute final agency action.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of California\u2019s case is the EPA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/epa-fulfills-statutory-obligation-transmitting-four-california-waiver-rules-congress\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June announcement<\/a> that four waivers already granted to the state under the Clean Air Act, are rules instead of waivers and that as a result, the agency sent them to Congress as required. Classifying the waivers, which allow the state to set stricter air quality standards than the federal government, as rules theoretically allows Congress &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration and California argued in front of a federal judge Wednesday over whether the Environmental Protection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1842,7,9,8,21292,38561],"class_list":["post-437670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-air-pollution","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-intervention","tag-preliminary-injunctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437670","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=437670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}