The bureaucracy is trying to run out the clock on repealing the California waiver. Do not let them do it!
Politico (4/1/25) reports: "It’s been nearly two months since EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin sent a trio of California’s clean vehicle rules for Congressional Review Act consideration, and we’re still waiting for Congress to review, let alone act... If you’ve been keeping track of this saga, you know Congress has a 60-day window to use CRA once an agency opens up a rule for review. There are now just eight work days left for the Senate to act — and seven in the House — before lawmakers leave for the April recess and the door shuts on lawmakers’ opportunity to expediently fulfill President Donald Trump‘s Day 1 executive order to roll back California’s electric-vehicle-boosting policies that a dozen other states follow. Michael Buschbacher, an attorney representing industry opponents of the rules like the National Corn Growers Association and biofuel refiner ICM Inc., said the wait-and-see is linked to the Senate, where Thune and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) are waiting to hear from Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough on whether she believes CRA can be used to overturn EPA approval of waivers that allow California to enforce its rules. MacDonough’s opinion is one of two that could be weighing on lawmakers’ minds. The other is the Government Accountability Office’s, which issued an opinion last month declaring that the waivers aren’t federal rules subject to CRA, contrary to Republicans’ stance that they are because other states can adopt them without further EPA approval."
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