California’s two US senators, Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, both Democrats, have sent a letter to President Biden urging him to set a date for when gasoline-powered vehicles will no longer be sold in the US.
Biden hasn’t said that he will commit to any timeline for a sales ban of gas-powered vehicles, but his campaign site during the Democratic primary did say he aimed to develop “rigorous new fuel-economy standards aimed at ensuring 100 percent of new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be electrified.”
The senators’ letter also requested that Biden restore California’s leadership on emissions standards; that leadership was eroded during the Trump presidency, particularly when the EPA revoked California’s waiver to set stricter emissions standards. The senators requested that the emissions standards which California and several automakers—including Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, Volvo, and BMW—agreed to last summer be made the federal standard.
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