New Jersey will prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 as part of an effort to improve air quality and reduce planet-warming pollutants, officials announced Tuesday.

A rule that will take effect Jan. 1 commits the state to an eventual move toward zero-emission vehicles, the state Department of Environmental Protection said in a news release.

It is one of a growing number of states to do so, including California, Vermont, New York, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland and Connecticut, according to Coltura, a Seattle-based nonprofit advocating for an end to gasoline vehicle use.

New Jersey will start limiting the amount of new gasoline-powered cars that can be sold in the state starting in 2027, eventually reaching zero in 2035.

  • Rhaedas
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    27 months ago

    Unless you want a war-time level mobilisation

    Some of the more “radical” scientists have been calling for such a thing for a while now. Meaning that it’s needed even more now since we haven’t done much to change anything and more damage has been done. You aren’t wrong, addressing the core problems would be a long and intensive process and most people would resist even required participation (which says something about the chances of voluntarily doing much).

    • @SCB
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      47 months ago

      I doubt anyone here disagrees with you that it would be a good thing. Instead, we don’t believe it is a possible thing to have happen in a democracy.