EPA Allows California to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted two requests from California on Dec. 18 to ban the sales of new gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035 in a move to enforce stricter vehicle emission standards.
40% : Trump previously rescinded California's emissions authority in 2019, but President Joe Biden's EPA restored the authority three years later.
37% : "California has longstanding authority to request waivers from EPA to protect its residents from dangerous air pollution coming from mobile sources like cars and trucks," EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.
23% : Trump revoked an Obama-era version of California's auto emission rules during his first term, and he has vowed to try to end the $7,500 consumer tax credit for buying electric vehicles that he and his allies have dubbed "the electric vehicle mandate.
18% : "California has imposed the most ridiculous car regulations anywhere in the world, with mandates to move to all-electric cars," Trump told the California Republican Party convention in September.
8% : Trump has repeatedly called "climate change" a "hoax" and has vowed to remove Biden's policies on the topic after he takes office in January.

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