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Mar 11, 2022 · Georgetown Climate Center: “EPA restoring the Clean Air Act waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Cars program is an important milestone to enable state climate leadership and reduce air pollution. This is great news: 17 states and DC have already adopted the Advanced Clean Cars program, which is helping to reduce air pollution and address climate change by putting less polluting and zero ...
- Notice of Reconsideration of a Previous Withdrawal of a ...
Fact Sheet: California State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control...
- Notice of Reconsideration of a Previous Withdrawal of a ...
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The Clean Air Act allows California to seek a waiver of the preemption which prohibits states from enacting emission standards for new motor vehicles. EPA must grant a waiver, however, before California’s rules may be enforced. When California files a waiver request, EPA publishes a notice for public hearing and written comment in the Federal Regis...
The Clean Air Act allows California to seek authorization to enforce its own standards for new nonroad engines and vehicles, despite the preemption which prohibits states from enacting emission standards for new nonroad engines and vehicles. When California files an authorization request, EPA publishes a notice for public hearing and written commen...
The Clean Air Act allows other states to adopt California’s motor vehicle emission standards under section 177. Section 177 requires, among other things, that such standards be identical to the California standards for which a waiver has been granted. States are not required to seek EPA approval under the terms of section 177. The Clean Air Act als...
The table here provides information on how to access the documentation associated with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) waiver or authorization requests that have been filed and are pending EPA action. When accessing the regulations.govwebsite, search under “Documents” in order to locate CARB’s request. Once EPA announces its final waiver ...
NOTES: 1. All Federal Register notices in text and Adobe Acrobat PDF format can also be found on the GPO Access site. Besides offering the PDF format, there are also more search options. 2. The date of waiver or authorization in the following table is the date of the first Federal Register notice for that issue.
Mar 9, 2022 · Background: The Clean Air Act uniquely gives California the ability to set stronger auto emissions standards than the federal government when granted a waiver from EPA. Other states can choose to ...
Jan 11, 2024 · Fact Sheet: California State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Standards; Advanced Clean Car Program; Reconsideration of a Previous Withdrawal of a Waiver of Preemption; Opportunity for Public Hearing and Public Comment (PDF) (4 pp, 137 K, April 2021, EPA-420-F-21-034, About PDF) Petitions for Reconsideration of SAFE-1 Submitted to EPA.
Mar 10, 2022 · Today, the Biden administration completed the process to restore California’s waiver privileges under the Clean Air Act. For nearly a decade, California, Under2 Coalition co-chair of North America, has been the only state with the ability to set tailpipe emission standards that are stricter than federal government standards as part of California’s Advanced Clean Cars Program. This unique ...
Apr 6, 2022 · On March 14, 2022, the Biden EPA issued a notice of decision to reinstate California’s Clean Air Act waiver for its Advanced Clean Car program, [1] restoring the state’s authority to set and enforce more stringent standards than the federal government, including California’s greenhouse gas emission standards and zero emission vehicle mandate.
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Mar 9, 2022 · This summer, Attorney General Bonta testified and later submitted comments urging the EPA to restore California’s waiver under the Clean Air Act for its GHG and zero-emission vehicle standards. The Attorney General also led a coalition in urging NHTSA to repeal a Trump-era rule, known as the “Preemption Rule,” that purported to preempt California’s GHG and zero-emission vehicles standards.
