WASHINGTON—The GOP-led Senate voted Thursday to take away California’s ability to set its own tailpipe emissions standards, effectively killing the country’s biggest driver of EV investment.The vote was 51-44.

As the House of Representatives has been debating its one big, beautiful bill this week, the Senate has been considering a contentious vote of its own. On

The Senate voted on Thursday to ax California’s phaseout of gas-powered cars, making a controversial move to sidestep the parliamentarian in the process. The vote was 51-44, and the measure

The Republican-led Senate moved Wednesday to overturn key Biden-era waivers allowing California to set its own vehicle emissions, a major blow to that state’s effort to regulate pollution from cars and trucks that could have broad environmental impacts for the rest of the country.

For nearly 60 years, California has enjoyed the ability to set its own standards governing air pollution from automobiles, as long as they’re more stringent than the federal government’s. This rule, written into the Clean Air Act, was meant to recognize the state’s long-standing leadership in regulating air emissions.

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Senate Republicans have voted to establish a new precedent that will allow them to roll back clean air standards in California, including a rule phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035