<story><title>Trump is going after California’s clean car mandate</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/23/trump-is-going-after-californias-clean-car-mandate/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>triviatise</author><text>In wickard vs filburn the govt made the case that a wheat farmer that grew wheat only for himself was subject to the interstate commerce clause. The reasoning was that he impacted markets by not having to buy wheat and therefore he should be fined for violating farming restrictions. The supreme court ruled in favor of the US govt.&lt;p&gt;This expansion of the commerce clause could lead to trump being able to get something like this through. Be wary of expansions of federal power predicated on reinterpretation of the constitution.</text></comment>
<story><title>Trump is going after California’s clean car mandate</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/23/trump-is-going-after-californias-clean-car-mandate/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elgenie</author><text>This is just nonsensical saber-rattling without Congressional action that stands approximately zero chance of taking place.&lt;p&gt;The relevant portion of the law [1] is pretty clear. The &amp;quot;waiver&amp;quot; granted to California is automatic, with no discretion for the EPA, &amp;quot;if the State determines that the State standards will be, in the aggregate, at least as protective of public health and welfare as applicable Federal standards&amp;quot;, unless the standards are &amp;quot;arbitrary and capricious&amp;quot; or not needed for &amp;quot;compelling and extraordinary conditions&amp;quot;. If they go to court with the current law, they&amp;#x27;ll get laughed at and then either give up or get an early 2020s Supreme Court to upend over two hundred years of federalism jurisprudence. Good luck with that.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;uscode&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;42&amp;#x2F;7543&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;uscode&amp;#x2F;text&amp;#x2F;42&amp;#x2F;7543&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>