The American Senate acquired in Donald Trump voted on Thursday, May 22, a resolution to prevent California from prohibiting the sale of new thermal vehicles in 2035, thus racing the path to a legal battle capable of shaping the electric car industry in the United States.
Under the leadership of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, the Parliament of California had legislated in 2022 to impose that all new vehicles sold in this US west state are “polluting zero emissions” since 2035.
An ambition shared by a dozen other democratic states, but disputed by President Donald Trump and his republican party that denounce what they consider a Diktat for all the United States.
“Gavin Newsom does not have the power to ruin the other 49 states,” said Republican Senator Mike Lee after the vote.
Strict environmental standards
California has the largest number of electric cars in the country and has benefited for more than half a century of derogatory that allow it to establish more strict environmental standards than federal legislation.
The most populous state in the country has long taken car manufacturers to make cars that meet their emission standards and are sold everywhere in the United States.
The text approved by the senators, which attacks the derogatory system that the benefits of California must now be promulgated by Donald Trump.
His signature is not doubtful: the Republican billionaire, a notorious climatoscepte, campaigned in 2024 for his desire to pierce oil in All-Via. He has also abandoned the objective established by his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden to sell 50% of electric cars in the United States by 2030.
“Do you want the United States to fall back into the fog?”
California authorities announced their intention to continue the Trump administration on Thursday as soon as the president firm the text. “We have a well -designed complaint, we are ready to present it,” said California Rob Bronta lawyer, denouncing an “illegal” decision.
“Do you want the United States to fall back into the fog?” The accused governor Gavin Newsom, remembering that the exception granted to his state dated since the 1970s, when the angels was regularly cut by a cloud of pollution.
“I suppose that is what Trump recommends,” he added, reproaching the president for “betraying” future generations.
Don’t Tesla without California?
Extensive as a potential candidate for the 2028 presidential election, the Democrat denounced a gift made to China, which could take advantage of it to establish its domination in the world market for electric cars.
“We give in our leadership, and we decreased half a century with yesterday’s technology,” he insisted, remembering that the American manufacturer “Tesla simply would not have existed” without the environmental rules adopted in California.
The judicial confrontation that aims to lead promises to be techniques. To question the Californian exception, the Republicans used a law that allowed the Congress to cancel federal regulations recently adopted by a simple majority vote instead of a 60 votes.
Therefore, they went against the opinion of the “Government’s Responsibility Office”, the equivalent of the Court of Auditors in France, which believed that California rules, issued only for this State, do not constitute national regulations. Justice will have to say if they have exceeded their power.
Source: BFM TV
