ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER/AUTO INDUSTRY/CALIFORNIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took another jab at President Donald Trump on Thursday [8-2-18], following news that the administration plans to revoke a signature Obama-era environmental regulation…The Trump administration wants to freeze a rule mandating that automakers work to make cars substantially more fuel efficient. It called its plan a ’50-state fuel economy and tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions standard for passenger cars and light trucks.’ The administration also proposed a withdrawal of California’s Clean Air Act pre-emption waiver. California and about a dozen states follow its rules account for about a third of all the passenger vehicles sold in the United States. In his tweet, Schwarzenegger described the proposal as a ‘stupid, fake-conservative policy announcement that no one asked for.’ California has, for decades, had a waiver allowing it to set its own emissions standards because the state had distinct air quality issues. In 2007, a federal court allowed California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide.”
-Saba Hamedy, “Schwarzenegger calls Trump administration’s emissions proposal ‘stupid’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 2, 2018 4:19 pm