
Debra Kahn
California Policy Editor and Columnist at POLITICO
California Policy Editor @POLITICO. Get in touch: [email protected]
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3 days ago |
politico.com | Alex Nieves |Debra Kahn |Camille von Kaenel
State lawmakers are targeting California’s climate and pollution regulations in the name of gas prices. A group of Senate Democrats wants to overhaul California's gasoline regulations. | Jeff Chiu/AP SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump is threatening California’s marquee carbon-trading program. But it’s in-state Democrats who are taking aim at the state’s other emissions market for transportation fuels.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Debra Kahn
President Donald Trump just revoked California's permission to enforce its nation-leading clean-car rules — and Mary Nichols understands why. "No one likes being regulated," she told me ahead of Thursday's Oval Office signing ceremony. Nichols knows that better than almost anyone.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Debra Kahn
TRACY, California — The bloodbath that Republicans are making of federal incentives for climate projects has stopped — for now — at the border of House Speaker Mike Johnson's district. That's where Heirloom Carbon is planning to build its first commercial-scale plant capable of extracting carbon dioxide from the air, by way of shallow trays of crushed limestone that absorb the planet-warming gas.
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3 weeks ago |
politico.com | Debra Kahn |Alex Nieves
President Donald Trump is blaming electric vehicles for his acrimonious breakup with Elon Musk. Elon Musk is shaking up the electric vehicle landscape. | Evan Vucci/AP Has Elon Musk become the climate champion California wanted him to be all along?
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3 weeks ago |
politico.com | Debra Kahn |Alex Nieves
With help from Camille von Kaenel Elon Musk is shaking up the electric vehicle landscape. | Evan Vucci/AP AT LAST: Has Elon Musk become the climate champion California wanted him to be all along? The Tesla CEO’s apparent pivot to self-interested electric vehicle policy advocate might be happening just in time to influence the Senate’s direction on $7,500 electric vehicle rebates, which the House megabill gutted last week.
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RT @politico: The White House is rolling back California’s vehicle emission standards, sidelining renewable energy. “The Trump administrat…

RT @politico: Trump revokes California’s nation-leading electric vehicle mandate https://t.co/UFGcQAkCRG

Scoop by @alexdrnieves - President Donald Trump plans to sign a trio of resolutions Thursday to revoke California’s nation-leading vehicle emissions standards.

Trump to revoke California vehicle emission rules on Thursday https://t.co/TNRAfvOrpk