Yes, why does no one get this.As far I as I understood it, it was state to state, but I think the EPA is Federal and has that "overreach".
EPA - pollution, federal.
DoT- Highway Safety Federal
Emission Testing - left to the states to oversee enforcement of EPA regulations. Many states don't and how they do it varies state to state.
Drinking age is 21 because the federal government will withhold highway funding to any state that is not +21.
EPA wants to do the same with emission testing.
Long term goal is to make own an ICE so painful you will have to buy a new electric.
OEMs are 100% on board because the ICE fleet is sooo old now, almost +15 years. Going EV would mean hundreds of millions of vehicles getting replaced and new sales.
OEMs also want the "great reset" where you no longer own a vehicle nor have a right to repair it. You lease it and maintain it at the OEM dealer. Thus way the OEM ensures its 100% operating correctly, your auto drive is working and you have to buy a new car every 4 years. Lease trade ins will get refurbished and released for another 4 years then scrapped at 8 years.
You'll have 140 million permanent long term EV subscribers shelling out $300-800/m.
Can't afford to pay $300/m forever! Well socialism has an answer for that! Move to your subsidized big-city pod home and ride the newly tax payer funded public transit system!!