Supreme Court takes up California clean cars case

The high court granted a petition from companies and groups representing oil refiners and biofuel producers that seeks to revive their lawsuit against the Biden administration’s reinstatement of California’s clean cars program. In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave California the OK to enforce rules that required car companies to sell new cars in the state that produced less pollution. The industry and red states sued over this action. They have argued the Biden administration was essentially allowing California to act as “a junior-varsity EPA.” The D.C. Circuit Court...