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By Art Moore
‘We’ve got to make sure that this happens quickly enough to beat climate change’
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hopes the federal government will follow California’s lead in approving a regulation that will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles.
“It’s interesting to see how the states are trying to go above and beyond what we’re doing at the federal level,” Buttigieg said in a podcast interview with KTTV-TV in Los Angeles, the Western Journal reported.
Buttigieg said he’s “really interested to follow these developments, while we continue to set a national policy that’s the baseline for all of this.”