TIM PUKO:

So, California has been a leader for decades in terms of environmental standards clean air regulations. They were doing it even before the federal government passed the Clean Air Act. They worked in collaboration with the Obama administration to set these standards. There are a dozen other states that also follow those rules and that covers about a third of the country's whole auto market. So effectively, they're the ones with the power because the auto industry doesn't want to build cars for two different standards. Logistically, it will be very difficult. You know, it's very costly. It can be confusing. And this is an industry that spends billions and billions on research and development and logistics. And so if California and the federal government don't agree it's a big problem for the automakers. That's the situation that we've gotten into now. California has this power. They want to keep the rules that have been in place since 2012. But the Trump administration doesn't agree. They want to get rid of them and to do that, they'll have to fight the power that California has. They've put out in this proposal that they have the authority to effectively override or eliminate California's waiver, California's authority. California certainly doesn't agree. That's why this is probably going to go to court and pretty much everyone I've talked to expects that if it does, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court.