What to know about the US Senate’s effort to block vehicle-emission rules in California By SOPHIE AUSTIN The Associated Press,Updated May 21, 2025, 12:13 a.m.

California air quality regulators are pushing back against a recent ad campaign launched by new-car dealers, which maintain that stringent zero-emissions targets could ravage the Golden State’s ...

For decades, California has made environmental policy as if it were a sovereign nation, not an equal member of the Union. The federal government granted it this privilege on the premise that the ...

However, the famously car-obsessed Jay Leno is working on that latter point by supporting California Senate Bill 712, which would raise the emissions test cutoff by 15 years (to 1990) for vehicles ...