Deregulatory Advocate Faults Vehicle Rollback For Undercutting Federalism

A prominent deregulatory advocate says the Trump administration's plan to roll back vehicle greenhouse gas limits and undo California's Clean Air Act power to set stricter standards undermines its professed support for “cooperative federalism,” and warns that scrapping the state's zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales mandate is legally “vulnerable.” “Apart from the legal questions, there is something odd about an administration that has proclaimed its support for 'cooperative federalism' now bending over backwards to preclude individual states from making their own...