This week, the Senate will likely vote on whether to invoke the Congressional Review Act of 1996 to nullify an Environmental Protection Agency rule that would grant California a “license to kill” the gas-powered engine on a nationwide basis.
The act exists precisely to empower Congress to quickly review and squelch grossly improvident agency rules like the one at issue here. The House has already voted to nullify the EPA’s action, teeing up the issue for the Senate. With luck, the Senate will agree with the House.
What’s the story?
In 2022, California adopted a law forbidding the in-state sale of new gas-powered motor vehicles by 2035, hoping to “save the planet” from its “existential” climate crisis by forcing a switch to electric vehicles.
Ordinarily, California could not legislate clean air standards for the entire nation. In the Clean Air Act,…
