California Ban on Gas Cars at Risk as House Votes to Kill It
Traffic moves along Interstate 80 in Emeryville, California.
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Republicans moved a step closer Thursday to repealing a federal waiver allowing California to ban gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a policy that had drawn opposition from automakers, fuel producers and President Donald Trump himself.
The US House voted 246-164 to roll back an Environmental Protection Agency authorization issued under former President Joe Biden, which let California enact emissions standards even stricter than the US government’s requirements to increase sales of electric and other zero-emission vehicles. Thirty-five Democrats joined with Republicans to vote in favor of the measure.