EPA Rebuffs ‘Major Questions’ Attacks On Waiver For California ZEV Rules

EPA is outlining numerous arguments for why its newly granted preemption waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Cars II program -- including its 100 percent zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) requirement by 2035 -- should survive the Supreme Court’s “major questions” doctrine or various other legal attacks. Many of the justifications -- detailed in a decision document released Dec. 18 -- echo agency arguments during defenses of prior California waivers as well as federal EPA emissions standards that include electric vehicles as...