Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) plans to ask Congress as early as Friday to overturn California’s nation-leading vehicle emission standards, he said Tuesday.
What happened: Kiley, a first-term House member from the Sacramento suburbs, said he would introduce a resolution carrying out EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s Friday request for Congress to overturn the Biden administration’s approval of three of California’s clean-vehicle rules.
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued this gas car ban unilaterally,” Kiley said in an interview. “You have this massive proposed change that would take 90 percent plus of existing cars off the road and tell people you’re not allowed to purchase those anymore, and it never actually received approval from the state legislature or from Congress.
“It affects not only California, but a bunch of other states as well, so getting Congress involved and saying, ‘Why don’t we put this to a vote,’ I think that makes perfect sense,” he continued.
