Threatened With Legal Action, State Makes U-Turn on Electric Truck Mandates

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The House also passed two others resolutions that are aimed at California’s eco-waivers. None of them have been taken up by the Senate yet and it’s not clear what authority the resolutions would have if they were also approved in that chamber.

Pressured by legal action from seventeen states that would have been impacted, California has agreed to not just drop enforcement of its electric truck mandate, but to repeal it entirely.

Following the governor’s 2020 executive order that banned the sales of new internal-combustion engine cars in 2035, the state Air Resources Board devised two years ago a “world-leading regulation to phase out the sales of medium and heavy-duty combustion trucks in California by 2036.”

Read the American Spectator here.

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