Senate, California and EV emissions
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The Senate totaled California’s signature climate change policy — mandating new cars sold be electric by 2035 — in a 51 to 44 vote Thursday morning. Nearly every Democrat present voted against revoking the EV mandate,
Thursday’s Senate vote to block California’s ban on sales of gas cars is the latest GOP effort to stop state climate policies.
California's EV mandate requires that 35% of all new vehicles sold in the state be electric in 2026, but EV sales were only 25% of the total in 2023 and 2024.
California’s authority to set environmental rules that are tougher than national standards had never been challenged by Congress. Until now.
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Senate Republicans have voted to establish a new precedent that will allow them to roll back clean air standards in California, including a rule phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035