California leads legal challenge to Scott Pruitt’s plan to weaken vehicle emissions standards – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] California officials have repeatedly vowed not to back down to attempts by the Trump administration to weaken the state’s environmental regulations, especially the progress it has made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The state kept its word on Tuesday when California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said he is joining more than a dozen other states in filing a lawsuit challenging an EPA determination , published on April 13, that the fuel efficiency requirements for cars and light trucks are too stringent and must be revised. At the direction of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, the agency is now in the process of rewriting those standards that aimed to slash carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles. In the lawsuit, California and the others assert that the EPA has violated the Administrative Procedure Act, failed to follow its own clean car regulations, and violated the Clean Air Act, Becerra said Tuesday at a press briefing in Sacramento, California. He was joined b...