Senate votes to block California's rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035

The solution volition present caput to the White House, wherever President Donald Trump is expected to motion it.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted connected Thursday to artifact California's first-in-the-nation regularisation banning the merchantability of caller gas-powered cars by 2035 arsenic lawmakers passed the archetypal of 3 resolutions to rotation backmost the state's conveyance emissions standards.

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The solution volition present caput to the White House, wherever President Donald Trump is expected to motion it, on with 2 different measures blocking California's rules that the Senate is expected to pass. The House passed the 3 resolutions earlier this month.

The sweeping determination to blunt the state's antipollution efforts comes aft Senate Republicans established a caller objection to the Senate filibuster connected Wednesday to let them to measurement successful connected the issue.

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The votes could person a profound interaction connected California's longtime efforts to curb aerial pollution.

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