民主党人罗伯·邦塔（Rob Bonta）正准备对抗总统对气候监管基石的撤销行动。
Democrat Rob Bonta is preparing to fight the president’s rollback of a regulatory keystone on climate.
加利福尼亚州总检察长罗伯·邦塔正寻求与总统展开一场备受瞩目的法律斗争，他表示，这场斗争可能会阻碍本届政府大规模削弱气候法规的企图。
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is angling for a high-profile legal fight with the president that he says could derail the administration’s sweeping effort to gut climate regulations.
这位民主党人曾领导多起诉讼，旨在阻止特朗普政府取消海上风电项目、扣留清洁能源资金以及废除标志性的气候污染法规。他面临的最大考验很可能是一场最高法院的对决。
The Democrat has led lawsuits to stop the Trump administration from canceling offshore wind projects, withholding clean energy funding and eliminating hallmark climate pollution rules. His biggest test is a likely Supreme Court matchup.
邦塔正准备反驳本届政府削弱联邦政府监管温室气体排放责任的企图。
Bonta is gearing up to argue against the administration’s attempt to undercut federal responsibility for regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
“我们能保证胜诉吗？不能，”邦塔在《政治报》（POLITICO）的能源播客中谈到最高法院的裁决时说。“但我们很有信心，因为事实和法律都站在我们这一边。”加州正在牵头针对美国环保署（EPA）撤销“危害认定”（endangerment finding）的举措提起多州诉讼，该认定曾确定温室气体对人类健康构成威胁。这一认定是特朗普总统试图废除的联邦气候法规的基础，其中包括本月被环保署废除的限制发电厂二氧化碳排放的规定。
“Can we guarantee it? No,” Bonta said on the POLITICO Energy podcast, referring to a Supreme Court win. “But we are confident because we have the facts and the law on our side.”California is leading the multistate lawsuit against the EPA’s move to revoke the endangerment finding, which determined that greenhouse gases are a danger to human health. That finding is the foundation for the federal climate regulations that President Donald Trump is attempting to revoke, including the EPA rule limiting carbon dioxide from power plants that the agency axed this month.
自近20年前最高法院要求该机构发布“危害认定”以来，最高法院的构成已经发生了变化。当时，首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨（John Roberts）在2007年“马萨诸塞州诉环保署案”（Massachusetts v. EPA）中写下了尖锐的异议，大法官塞缪尔·阿利托（Samuel Alito）和克拉伦斯·托马斯（Clarence Thomas）也加入了他的行列。如今，随着特朗普任命了三位保守派大法官，他们已成为多数派。
The high court has changed since it required the agency to issue an endangerment finding nearly 20 years ago. Back then, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a scathing dissent in the 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA, and was joined by justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Now they’re in the majority, after Trump’s appointment of three conservative justices.
“曾有人担心美国最高法院会听命于特朗普，即使事实和法律站在我们这边，也永远不会支持加州。但你知道，我们在特朗普政府的一些核心政策上已经在最高法院赢得了胜利，”邦塔说，他提到了加州在选区重划方案上的胜利，以及阻止联邦政府部署国民警卫队的成功案例。
“There were fears that the U.S. Supreme Court was gonna do Trump’s bidding and never find for California, even if we had the facts and law on our side. And you know, we have won at the U.S. Supreme Court on key centerpiece policies of the Trump administration,” Bonta said, citing victories on the state’s redistricting plan and preventing federal deployment of National Guard troops.
特朗普在环境问题上的许多斗争仍在酝酿之中。他的政府已重启加州海岸外的石油和天然气开发项目，并向海上风电开发商支付了数十亿美元，以换取他们放弃租赁权。周二，邦塔的办公室就特朗普对海上风电的处理方式提起了诉讼。
Many of Trump’s environmental fights are still brewing. His administration has restarted oil and gas development off California’s coast and paid offshore wind developers billions of dollars to abandon their leases. Bonta’s office filed a lawsuit Tuesday over Trump’s handling of offshore wind.
特朗普最直接的攻击目标是萨克拉门托超越联邦车辆排放限制的能力。《清洁空气法》允许加州通过豁免程序制定更严格的限制措施，以应对其持续存在的雾霾污染。该政策将有助于加州实现其到2035年禁止销售新款内燃机汽车的目标。
Trump’s most direct shot is aimed at Sacramento’s ability to exceed federal limits on vehicle emissions. The Clean Air Act lets California set tougher restrictions through a waiver process to deal with its persistent smog pollution. That policy would help the state achieve its goal of banning new sales of vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2035.
特朗普正试图破坏这一目标。美国环保署署长李·泽尔丁将这些豁免重新归类为一项法规，并将其提交给国会，试图通过《国会审查法》予以废除。联邦法院裁定此举违法，环保署已提出上诉。
Trump is trying to undermine that target. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin reclassified those waivers as a rule, which he sent to Congress to nullify through the Congressional Review Act. A federal court ruled that it’s illegal, and EPA has appealed.
“根据法律，豁免是一项命令，而不是法规，也不受《国会审查法》的约束，这一点是毋庸置疑的，”邦塔说。“所以我们会将其诉诸任何法庭。”至于加州人是否支持该州的电动汽车目标，则是另一回事。根据《政治报》的一项民意调查，超过半数的潜在选民（54%）表示反对在2035年禁止销售新款燃油车。州长职位的领先候选人、民主党人哈维尔·贝塞拉正在竞选填补加文·纽森州长即将离任留下的空缺，他曾对这一目标表示怀疑。但贝塞拉表示，他相信这一目标仍然可以实现。
“It is undisputed under the law that a waiver is an order and it’s not a rule and it’s not subject to the Congressional Review Act,” Bonta said. “So we’ll take that to any court.”Whether Californians support the state’s EV goal is another matter. More than half of likely voters — 54 percent — said they oppose the 2035 ban on new gas-powered car sales, according to a POLITICO poll. A leading candidate for governor, Xavier Becerra, a Democrat who’s running to fill the open seat left by the upcoming departure of Gov. Gavin Newsom, has cast doubt on the goal. But Becerra says he believes it is still within reach.
邦塔驳回了有关加州气候政策与选民对生活成本担忧相冲突的顾虑。
Bonta dismissed concerns that California’s climate policies are at odds with voters’ concerns about cost of living.
“加州终究是加州，”他说。“我不认为我们脱离了现实。我认为我们是在引领潮流。”相反，邦塔认为特朗普的政策加剧了负担能力问题。他反驳了特朗普关于清洁能源更昂贵的说法，称忽视气候变化会带来野火和洪水等方面的代价。他还表示，关税和与伊朗的战争也推高了包括汽油在内的价格。
“California is gonna be California,” he said. “I don’t think we’re out of touch. I think we lead.”Instead, Bonta argued that Trump’s policies have stoked affordability problems. He rejected Trump’s claims that clean energy is more expensive, saying that ignoring climate change imposes costs related to things like wildfires and floods. Tariffs and the war with Iran have also spiked prices, including for gas, he said.
邦塔还对特朗普与化石燃料行业及大企业的关系提出了质疑，指责他未能执行反垄断法。
Bonta also challenged Trump’s relationships with the fossil fuel industry and corporations, accusing him of failing to enforce antitrust laws.
“特朗普一直在写一封没完没了的情书，或者至少是在尝试这样做，写给化石燃料行业，不断地撰写不同的章节和段落，试图一次又一次地给他们送去利益，”他说。
“Trump has been writing an ongoing love letter, or at least attempting to, to the fossil fuel industry, writing different chapters and different verses and trying to provide them giveaways time and time again,” he said.
邦塔最近处于另一场反垄断纠纷的中心。本月早些时候，加州和其他11个州就派拉蒙天空之舞（Paramount Skydance）收购华纳兄弟探索公司（Warner Bros. Discovery）一案达成了和解，此前他们曾警告称，合并后公司的规模将扼杀媒体行业的竞争。目前，一位联邦法官已暂停了该和解协议的推进。
Bonta was recently at the center of a different antitrust dispute. California and 11 other states settled their lawsuit over Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery earlier this month, after warning that the combined companies’ size would quash competition in the media industry. A federal judge has paused the settlement from moving forward.
邦塔表示，派拉蒙已经解决了该州关于电影院线发行和有线频道授权的投诉，并辩称达成和解并不意味着他在针对大企业采取行动时退缩了。
Bonta said Paramount addressed the state’s complaints — about theater releases for films and cable channel licensing — and argued that the settlement did not mean he was shying away from taking actions against corporations.
“进步运动是一个包容性很强的阵营，”他说。“这里有很多议题、很多学科领域和很多政策领域。我们不可能在所有事情上都达成一致，而这正是这种包容性阵营的魅力所在。”
“The progressive movement is a big tent,” he said. “There are many issues and many subject matter areas and many policy areas. We’re not all going to agree on everything and that’s part of the beauty of having a big tent.”