Twenty-Four AGs Filed Petition for Reconsideration of EPA’s Revocation of California Clean Car Waiver

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led a coalition of 24 attorneys general in filing a petition for reconsideration of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule to revoke California’s long-held authority under the Clean Air Act to set its own emissions and fuel efficiency standards for new cars and light trucks. Over the past 50 years the EPA has granted California 100 waivers to set its own tailpipe standards. Thirteen other states and Washington D.C. — which, together with California, are home to nearly a third of the U.S. population — have adopted the California standards. The attorneys general noted several reasons for reconsideration of the rule, including that the EPA has not articulated any valid rationale for its authority to revoke California’s waiver and has unlawfully deprived the public of the opportunity to comment on its offered rationale for revoking California’s waiver.