Climate Changed
Trump Takes Fight With California to Its Smog-Choked Skies
- Highway funds may be cut as punishment, EPA threatens
- State’s governor calls EPA move a ‘brazen political stunt’
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The Trump administration is escalating its fight against California by taking aim at its air pollution problem -- a move the state’s governor called a “brazen political stunt.”
The Environmental Protection Agency notified California in a letter Tuesday that it has failed to file complete plans for fighting conventional air pollution and may lose highway funding as punishment. The letter comes only days after the EPA said it would strip away two of the state’s tools for fighting smog.