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The Trump administration is lying. They aren’t worried about our safety, and they don’t want to reduce gasoline usage. Their arguments are transparently weak. They’re denying science and truth so that they can sell us out for oil-industry cash. nytimes.com/2018/08/02/cli…
I'm proud of California for doing what's best for its citizens. #StatesRights
More Republican hypocrisy — “state's rights" tossed out when it’s inconvenient for them and the GOP agenda. They abandon it when it means cleaning up our air.
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As a battle looms ahead, let’s take a look back at where we’ve been & why #CleanCarStandards are so important.

Once upon a time, CA’s fight for #cleanercars emerged from a thick layer of yellowish gray #smog with a metallic taste & eye-stinging character...
When Governor Ronald Reagan signed the law creating CARB in 1968, California had been fighting the #smog monster for over 20 years with regulations to clean up tailpipe pollution
Governor Reagan fought hard to protect CA’s authority to set its own #cleanercarstandards under the newly passed #CleanAirAct, signed by President Nixon a few years after LA’s #smog made the cover of Time Magazine
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