Environmentalists Join EPA-California Fight Over Car Rules (1)

Environmental groups are joining the fight against the EPA for cutting off California’s authority to set auto emissions standards.

Eleven groups launched a lawsuit Nov. 22 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s September rescission of a waiver under the Clean Air Act that allows the Golden State to chart its own course on auto rules.

“Trump officials have no legal right to crush Californians’ efforts to protect our lungs from smog and our planet from the carbon pollution pouring out of cars and SUVs,” Center for Biological Diversity attorney ...