A Virginia Senate committee has killed a proposal backed the Republican governor that sought to repeal the state’s adoption of California’s vehicle emission standards which promoted zero-emission vehicles over fossil fuel ones.
In 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) introduced a rule requiring a ban on the sale of fossil fuel vehicles starting in 2035, encouraging the adoption of electric vehicles. Since Virginia passed a “Clean Cars” law in 2021 that linked the state with California’s emissions standards, the state’s office of the attorney general indicated that Virginia would also have to follow standards set by California.
