Congress could soon revoke California’s vehicle emissions standards

Congress could soon revoke California’s vehicle emissions standards

State and local authority over air quality will be jeopardized if Congress revokes California’s auto emissions limits, experts say.

All Eyes on Curtis

WASHINGTON DC (5/16/25) – Today, the American Energy Alliance launched a five-figure advocacy initiative in Utah. The ads encourage Senator John Curtis (R-UT) to support the effort to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the Clean Air Act waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Cars (ACC II) rule. The Senate is expected to take up the measure before the Memorial Day recess. AEA President Thomas Pyle issued the following sta…

Padilla, Schiff Lead Effort to Stop Republican Rollback of California’s Emissions Laws

In anticipation of a Senate effort to deal a fatal blow to California’s emissions authority, California Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla appealed to the body’s better (and procedural) angels. The senators utilized two arguments to make their case: a moral one and a procedural one. The moral argument goes that California has long been a […] The post Padilla, Schiff Lead Effort to Stop Republican Rollback of California’s Emissions Laws first …

New California testing facility aims to scale heavy-duty electric truck charging | May 15, 2025

New California testing facility aims to scale heavy-duty electric truck charging As the Trump administration meanders toward terminating federal support for what it deems an “EV mandate,” 24 states and Washington, D.C., are still actively working on carbon reduction goals that are actually mandated by law. Heavy-duty (HD) trucking is one of the trickiest variables to solve for in the net-zero equation. Batteries are far less energy-dense than di…