Tim Walz Rammed a California-Style EV Mandate Into Law Without Consulting Minnesota’s Legislature – IOTW Report

Tim Walz Rammed a California-Style EV Mandate Into Law Without Consulting Minnesota’s Legislature

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During his first year as Minnesota’s governor, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz took executive action to adopt California’s electric vehicle regulations in the state, bypassing the Legislature in a move that lawmakers and auto dealers argue violated state statute.

“If Washington won’t lead on climate, Minnesota will,” Walz remarked on Sept. 25, 2019.

Walz’s comments came after he directed the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the state’s lead environmental regulator, to craft a “clean cars” rule similar to California’s Advanced Clean Cars program. Under federal law, California may receive a waiver authorizing it to implement stricter emissions standards than the federal government.

Walz ultimately outlined a plan to force new gasoline-powered vehicles to produce far fewer emissions and mandate automakers to deliver more electric vehicles to dealers in the state beginning in 2024. And he took the action without consulting Minnesota’s Legislature, by leveraging a little-known provision in a piece of legislation passed years earlier. more

11 Comments on Tim Walz Rammed a California-Style EV Mandate Into Law Without Consulting Minnesota’s Legislature

  1. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannd Man Made Global Warming (or global warming, climate change, or whatever the F their calling it THIS week) is only a lame theory, certainly not scientific fact, but the Liberals and Hucksters all say: You don’t know what you’re talking about! Shut Up! The Science is settled! (in other words they don’t have an argument)

    Yet the science of gender and chromosomes is well established scientific fact, yet these same Liberals maintain a bogus notion that boys can be girls and men can have periods and babies.

    Ya can’t have it both ways Mo Rons!

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  2. geoff the aardvark
    Sunday, 11 August 2024, 10:26 at 10:26 am
    “Good luck with worthless EV’s during Minnesota’s extremely cold winters.”

    …Not an issue for him. He’s going to travel about in a chauffered long black tax tractor regardless of what he makes you peasants do.

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  3. Socialists have no regard for the rule of law. BTW, he seems like someone who “rams” on a regular basis. The queer radar is off the charts for this pervert.

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