Green Defeat

No mandate in California:

The resolution, introduced by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) in April, passed in a bipartisan 51-44 vote Thursday morning. Just one Democrat, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), voted in favor of the resolution alongside every Republican who voted. Five lawmakers were absent from the vote. "The impact of California’s waiver would have been felt across the country, harming multiple sectors of our economy and costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process," said Capito, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The vote is a significant loss for both California, which passed its EV mandate in 2022, and for climate activists who loudly defended the law. After the state approved the law, it sought a federal sign-off—the 1970 Clean Air Act allows California to obtain a federal waiver to issue vehicle emissions regulations that are stricter than federal standards, and for other states to adopt those regulations.

Green only goes so far, even there...