Posted on 09/26/2023 6:52:07 PM PDT by bitt
Republicans currently maintain control of the lower chamber and the governorship, but Senate Democrats have thus far blocked efforts to upend the current environmental regulation.
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is reportedly looking to an electric vehicle mandate tied to California's own environmental regulations should his party secure enough support in the upcoming legislative elections.
The Old Dominion, which was something of a Democratic bastion in recent years, is legally obligated to embrace the automobile standards created by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) due to a law passed while Democrats ran the state.
Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter told the Washington Examiner that, should Republicans topple Democratic leadership in the Senate, the law tying Richmond to Sacramento on environmental policy would become a key target for the GOP.
"It defies common sense that Democrats in Virginia have continued to outsource decision-making on energy policy," Porter said. "In a partisan fashion, Virginia's Democrats blocked Gov. Youngkin's legislative proposal this year to remove Virginia from the California model."
Republicans currently maintain control of the lower chamber and the governorship, but Senate Democrats have thus far blocked efforts to upend the current environmental regulation.
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The Old Dominion slowly but surely deciding AGAINST becoming “Californicate-East”.
Let COMMON SENSE prevail !
Youngkin's impressive. The fights he's picking are good ones...
Typical GOP posturing...
Just means that he has given up any concept of getting control of education in those communist-controlled northern suburbs that he promised...
This legislation disenfrachises voters. How is it Constitutional?
He’s doing the right thing for which he’ll only receive scorn. The right won’t give any credit. One is expected to do his job.
What morons willingly give up their sovereignty?? And to the idiots of California of all places!
Good for him!
Great news...
<>What morons willingly give up their sovereignty??<>
I’ve wondered that about the Article V opponents at FR.
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