A coalition of Democratic-led states is countering Republican critics of the Biden administration’s new tailpipe rule for passenger cars and trucks, saying the regulation will improve the environment and boost public health.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D), Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the California Air Resources Board along with 22 other state attorneys general and four cities, filed a motion Monday to intervene in a challenge to the rule.
The defense comes as a group of Republican-led states led by Kentucky and West Virginia last week asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to scrap the new rule, saying it exceeds EPA’s authority.
Bonta and Newsom bashed the GOP-led lawsuit in a pair of statements, with Newsom saying the state is “not going to watch radical Republicans put the profits of big oil over the health of our planet.”
