The Trump administration is reportedly threatening to pull federal funding for highways in California after the state has “failed” to submit complete pollution-control plans required by law.
The Trump administration is reportedly threatening to pull federal funding for highways and other transportation projects in California after the state has “failed” to submit complete pollution-control plans required by law.Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler wrote to the California Air Resources Board that the state “has failed to carry out its most basic tasks under the Clean Air Act” since the 1970s.
Wheeler warned that if California fails to withdraw its “backlogged and unapprovable” reports and work with the EPA to develop complete ones, the administration could hand down sanctions that would mean cuts to highway funding and allow the federal government to develop its own plans. The letter, which is dated Tuesday and requests a response from state officials by Oct. 10, comes days after several states led by California
against the Trump administration, challenging its decision to revoke a decades-old rule that empowers California to set tougher car emissions standards than those required by the federal government.In Tuesday’s letter, Wheeler writes that California “has the worst air quality in the United States,” alleging that 34 million people in California live in areas that don’t meet federal air pollution standards — “more than twice as many people as any other state in the country.
Wheeler wrote that the EPA is working to “dramatically reduce” a backlog of state implementation reports, and that California disproportionately represents one-third of the national list with 130 reports, some decades old.the Sacramento Bee
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