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The state of California is at the forefront in the fight against global warming and has almost systematically challenged the measures taken by Donald Trump. REUTERS / Mike Blake

Donald Trump took advantage of his visit to California to announce that he was revoking the derogation of this rebellious state on automotive pollution standards. The US administration believes that only federal agencies have the authority to decide on the regulation of vehicles.

With our correspondent in San Francisco, Eric de Salve

After the presidential affront, the governor of California wants to remain optimistic. " We will finish, he assures us, by winning ". Gavin Newsom denounces an aggressive attack by Donald Trump and his timing, just days before the UN climate summit on Saturday.

The attack comes in a series of tweets posted earlier by the US president to announce the revocation of California's exemption on CO2 emissions from cars. " The Trump administration revokes California's federal emissions exemption to produce much cheaper cars for consumers, while significantly improving vehicle safety ," he said Wednesday from Los Angeles.

The Trump Administration is revoking California's Federal Waiver on emissions in order to produce goods, while at the same time making cars SAFER. This will lead to more production because of this pricing and safety ......

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 18, 2019

State at the forefront of climate warfare

A new escalation in the war between climate-skeptical President Donald Trump and California who is at the forefront of the fight for climate. The Clean Air Act dates back to the 1970s. This derogation was signed by two Republicans: President Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan then governors of California. At the time, it was to free Los Angeles of its smog smog. So this summer, when the Trump administration decides to soften the Obama administration's obligations to the auto industry to limit greenhouse gases, California refuses all clean under the Clean Air Act, with in its thirteen other States.

This is the beginning of yet another standoff, which this time raises the question of the limits of American federalism and should therefore be resolved before the United States Supreme Court. " We can not afford to go back in our fight against global warming, " warns California's attorney general.

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