Governor Brown’s Statement on Trump’s Proposal on Clean Car Standard

California

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Jerry Brown, the governor of the state of California, recently opposed the proposal to rewrite the Obama-era greenhouse gas rule presented by the Trump administration. The Trump administration made the recommendation to enhance coal-fired industries in the country. The new proposed law, the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, proposed that all states would receive more control over the emission levels they felt comfortable with from plants in their respective locations. The argument made by the Trump administration was that the Clean Power Plan prepared by the Obama administration was burdensome and very precise. However, Brown declined the proposal by stating that Trump was proposing a war on the entire nation and that the president’s insanity would not prevail…

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