John Sarbanes: “The administration can only do what it does under the authority of current law, and they can do quite a bit”

The goal was not to federalize elections across the country; the goal was to set some uniform standards.

We would like to thank Rep. Sarbanes for introducing this important piece of bipartisan legislation

Congress gave EPA this role more than 50 years ago under the Clean Air Act and reaffirmed that responsibility in 2005 under the Energy Policy Act.

It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ban.