Comment by forapurpose
8 years ago
> This expansion of the commerce clause could lead to trump being able to get something like this through
That is not the strategy the Trump administration is using, according to the article. California is regulating emissions under a 2009 waiver granted by EPA. The administration is seeking to revoke that waiver.
The federal Clean Air Act states the EPA shall grant California the waiver unless California fails to meet certain conditions. The EPA (and by extension the head of the EPA, and the head of the EPA's boss who happens to be a President who hates California) does not possess the power, under the Act, to deny the waiver on a whim.