Will SCOTUS take on the California gas car ban?

American Spectator (10/22/24) article: “California political figures should not be permitted to impose their regulatory preferences on American consumers. Consumers who should have the freedom and latitude to select the cars that best suit their particular needs. At least that is what free-market activists argue in an amicus brief that could quickly find an audience before the U.S. Supreme Court.

House members provided further weight to the brief this past September when they passed a resolution under the Congressional Review Act that would overturn Vice President Kamala Harris, standing in for President Biden, and the EPA administrators’ ‘de facto electric vehicle mandate.’

Tom Pyle, a founding member of the Save Our Cars Coalition, which includes 31 national and state-based free-market organizations, trade associations, and consumer protection groups, sees an opportunity for Harris to demonstrate that she has had an epiphany that would help explain why she now sees fit to reverse her prior support of anti-consumer regulations.

As Pyle explained in an interview:

Since becoming her party’s nominee, Vice President Harris has tried to walk back her long-standing support of EV mandates and other anti-energy and anti-consumer policies. If she wants to show the American people that she has changed her tune, and suddenly cares about consumer choice, now is the time for her to call on her former colleagues in the Senate to vote in favor of this resolution. Harris could also lean on President Biden to sign the CRA if it makes it to his desk. Otherwise, there’s no reason to take her policy reversal seriously.’ 

The congressional resolution would strike down the EPA’s new tailpipe emissions rule that reinstates a waiver the Obama administration granted to California under the Clean Air Act. The waiver enabled California’s regulators to set standards for automobile emissions that are even more rigid and burdensome than federal standards. “

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