Virginia will stop following California’s stricter emissions standards, which would have put the state on track to end sales of nearly all new internal-combustion cars by 2035, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced last week.
All states have the option to follow California’s emissions rules instead of the federal standards, and Virginia passed a law to do this in 2021. That could draw legal challenges against Youngkin’s move to drop out of the ranks of states following California emissions rules, reports the Virginia Mercury (via Axios).
In a statement, Youngkin said an opinion from Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares found that the law, as written, does not require the state to follow the latest round of standards, known as as Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II). So Youngkin plans to revert Virginia to the federal emissions standards on January 1, 2025.
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