EPA reportedly threatens to cut California's highway funding over Clean Air Act 'failure'
The Trump administration’s political feud with California intensified Monday with a letter from the Environmental Protection Agency threatening to cut federal transportation funding from the state as punishment for not submitting timely pollution-control plans.
The state’s standards “are necessary to protect the public health and welfare,” California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols said at a news conference last week. “We actually need these extra clean cars in order to meet the health standards that are set by the federal government that we violate now on a very regular basis throughout Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley.
Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA can respond to inadequate smog clean-up plans from states by imposing a series of escalating sanctions, including increased restrictions on polluting industries and the loss of federal highway funds. “We certainly want to avoid these statutory triggers,” Wheeler wrote, “but our foremost concern must be ensuring clean air for all Americans.”
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