President Donald Trump was mulling a move to revoke California’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks during his earliest days in office, an email released through a public-records request shows.
In early February 2017, Environmental Protection Agency transition official David Schnare emailed EPA attorney Kevin Minoli to relay instructions from a White House aide: Prepare for an executive order “in the near future” directing the agency to reconsider Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards and revoke California’s waiver allowing it to regulate tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions.
Trump never ordered the second half of that ...