Ned Lamont won't revive effort to adopt stricter electric vehicle rules

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Ned Lamont won't revive effort to adopt stricter electric vehicle rules

After being forced to retreat last year from an effort to phase out sales of new gas-powered cars over the next decade, Gov. Ned Lamont now says that he has little appetite to resume that fight under the Trump administration.  “I said a year ago, whatever it was, we’re going to follow the federal standards,” Lamont told The Connecticut Mirror. “I’m sorry that there probably are no federal standards now.”  Lamont was referring to the fact that Co…