A core California climate tool is under threat this election. How leaders are bracing for impact

if Donald Trump or the Supreme Court dismantles one of the state’s key weapons against carbon emissions, a half-century old Environmental Protection Agency waiver program that allows California to set regulations that are stronger than federal rules. “If California has its authority under the Clean Air Act limited, that is a blow,” said Ann Carlson, who served as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under Joe Biden. “Not just to California, but the whole country. California’s leadership is often followed by other states and frankly by the federal government.”

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