House lawmakers in Washington D.C. voted 222-190 in favor of a bill blocking states from attempting to eliminate the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles. The measure also would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing waivers for such bans.
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I have to wonder about State's Rights. Do we need any mandates pushed down from the Federal level to the States? If the people in a particular State want to collectively want to do something stupid, it should be their freedom.
This pretty clearly falls under the Constitutional power to "to regulate Commerce... among the several States", at least as per jurisprudence since Wickard v. Filburn. Mind you, I'd love to see that terrible decision and all of its successors rolled back, but that would be a seismic disruption to our body of law and we're more likely to see an actual revolution than an in-system change of that scope.