Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall recently joined a coalition of 26 states in support of ending California's war on gas-powered cars and trucks.
The state's brief filed in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals explains the authority of Congress and President Donald Trump to revoke waivers granted to California by the EPA under the Biden Administration. The waivers authorized by Biden allowed California's radical net-zero emissions to dictate what vehicles Americans purchase.
California's truck ban would not just increase costs. It would devastate the demand for liquid fuels, such as biodiesel, cutting trucking jobs across the nation, according to Marshall.
"California and Gavin Newsom do not get to decide what cars and trucks Alabamians drive. This radical mandate is nothing more than an attempt to force the entire country into California's failed green agenda, destroying jobs, driving up costs, and stripping away choice. Alabama will never bow to California elites or let Gavin Newsom regulate our economy from Sacramento," Marshall said. "If Newsom spent half as much time fixing his broken state as he does bullying others and chasing headlines on podcasts, California might not have so many families and businesses fleeing it every single day."
Alabama joined the Iowa-led brief along with Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
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