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Government,
Environmental & Energy

Mar. 10, 2022

Lawsuit moot, for now, after Biden administration reverses course on California greenhouse gas emission standards

The resolution of the lawsuit is a clear win for the state, but such a dispute may be reignited if a Republican wins the presidency in 2024.

President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday dropped the Environmental Protection Agency's bid to revoke California's waiver allowing the state to implement its own greenhouse gas emission standards.

The EPA announced that its 2019 bid, during President Donald Trump's administration, to eliminate the state's decades-old authority to set more stringent air pollution standards than the federal government was "decided in error and are now...

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