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Republicans have used the Congressional Review Act to roll back California’s states’ right to protect its own residents’ lungs and pocketbooks with better pollution rules. But here’s the ...

Updated 4/23/2025 to add comments and information from OOIDA, ACT author Craig Segall, and analysis regarding truck maker investments in clean trucks. Updated 5/22 to add House action on resolutions.

Since 1970 when Ronald Reagan as Governor of California initially requested the waiver authority from the federal government, and President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act Amendments of ...

California was granted the ability to enact stricter vehicle emissions standards than the federal government under the Clean Air Act in a process that involves receiving a waiver from the ...

California used to be able to set its own emissions standards above and beyond those set by the Federal government. It was a provision of the Clean Air Act, signed into law by republican president ...

Born of the infamously smoggy skies of California’s cities, this delegation of power was in the original Clean Air Act of 1970 and has been continued by presidential waiver until now.

Earlier today, the US Senate voted to revoke California’s waiver to set its own clean air rules using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The House previously voted on a similar measure earlier ...