Foes of California's electric car targets take their case to US Supreme Court
By Lisa Baertlein
July 3, 2024 6:08 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES, July 3 (Reuters) - Opponents of California's ambitious targets for electric car adoption to lower greenhouse gas emissions took their case to the U.S. Supreme Court this week, the latest salvo against the state's campaign to fight climate change.

Energy companies, corn growers and industry associations have long opposed strong environmental rules in California, for decades the only state with power to request a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set its own vehicle emissions regulations that are more stringent than the federal standard.

The EPA made that exception because the nation's most populous state has unique factors like geography and a large number of vehicles that make smog a worse problem than in other states.

Other states are allowed to adopt California's stricter tailpipe emission rules, and automakers tend to follow to avoid having to produce different vehicles for different states.

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