HMC - EPA chief rips California's plan to ban new gas-powered cars

The Environmental Protection Agency criticizes California Gov. Newsom's plan to ban the sale of new gasoline- and diesel-powered cars after 2035, arguing the mandate is impractical and possibly illegal.California's rolling blackouts and requests for power from neighboring states "begs the question of how you expect to run an electric car fleet that will come with significant increases in electricity demand, when you can't even keep the lights on today," EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said today in a letter to Newsom.Wheeler also said the order likely would not be able to be implemented by the California Air Resources Board without approval from the EPA, pointing out that the Trump administration in 2019 took away the state's power to set its own vehicle tailpipe emissions standards.Newsom has made climate change a central part of his policy agenda, and the governor says transportation is responsible for more than half of carbon emissions in

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EPA chief rips California's plan to ban new gas-powered cars