US senators urge Biden to set end date for gas-powered car sales

Democratic Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein, in an unreported letter seen by Reuters news agency, called on the US president ‘to follow California’s lead and set a date by which all new cars and passenger trucks sold be zero-emission vehicles’.

California’s two United States senators are urging President Joe Biden to set a firm date to phase out gas-powered passenger vehicles as the White House grapples with how to rewrite vehicle emissions rules slashed under President Donald Trump. In an unreported letter going to Biden Monday, Democratic Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein called on Biden “to follow California’s lead and set a date by which all new cars and passenger trucks sold be zero-emission vehicles”. They also urged Biden to restore California’s authority to set clean car standards.