WOW! Virginia Senate Republicans Motion To Repeal Electric Car Mandate Defeated

On Tuesday, Democrats in the Virginia Senate blocked repeated Republican attempts to repeal a "clean cars" law that would have adopted California's strict limits for vehicle emissions in an effort to decrease carbon pollution.

The decision in committee was a turning point in the Republican campaign to abolish the law, which is one of the session's most talked-about issues. Similar bills, which have a better chance of passing the Republican-controlled House, would ultimately be brought before the same Senate committee for a vote.

The passage of the rules was praised on Tuesday by environmental groups as one of the most significant actions Virginia has taken to combat climate change.

The Natural Resources Defense Council's policy director for Virginia, Walton Shepherd, said that the vote shows that attacks led by Governor Glenn Youngkin on Virginia's bedrock climate laws are a dead end and that he should get on the side of making pollution progress rather than standing against it.