Why didn't California consult GM and Toyota when they created stricter emissions standards?

Why did they only consult Ford, Volkswagen, Honda, and BMW? Now the justice department is conducting anti-trust investigations on this issue?

How is this "bullying auto companies?" On page 11 of the NYT, governor Newsom is quoted. He claim Trump has been bullying auto companies for months. How so?

The NYT claims that the four auto-companies displeased Trump in some way. They seem to imply that Trump is wantonly attacking them. Why does the creative NYT writer believe this? What basis is there to believe Trump is wielding arbitrary authority against Ford, Volkswagen, Honda, and BMW?

For the sake of argument, suppose the NYT's character assassinating accusation is correct. Shouldn't they at least state reasons why Trump is targeting four auto-companies? Even then, it's just speculating.

Why is the NYT trying to depict Trump as a villain? On this specific issue, what basis is there to do so? Is it fair to say that the writers of this article have low journalistic standards? Do they even have a conscious?

The most glaring omission was that Toyota and GM weren't even mentioned in the article. Toyota is the largest Japanese automaker. GM is the largest domestic auto maker. Isn't it odd they weren't even mentioned?

Not one single statement is made as to the possible merits of an anti-trust investigation. It's as though it's assumed Trump is capable of nothing but malicious intent.

This question is a mess. Are you trying to make a point, or there some information we can help you with?

Newsom is lying. Trump has deregulated the auto industry, which has in turn made them have to spend less money on regulatory matters.

As for the question, they likely consulted auto companies to get a better idea of what the industry could realistically handle and do.

It should however be noted that regulations of this sort are really nothing more than the government consuming control over private property by taking control over the decision process. It's one thing to punish people for harming others and another to tell people what to do with their private property by ordering them to do what you want. In short, the only people that are bullying auto companies is the people that want to tell them what to do with their private property.

California Politicians aren't Engineers or Scientists but they are opportunists and Carpet-baggers. They're not good people doing good things, they accumulate power and wealth while they prey on others using popular culture issues to get votes from those who are asleep.

You have most of your "facts" wrong.

The USA has had a set of emission standards that clean our air by slowly getting stricter. The most recent ones were set during the Obama era.

Then Trump decided that clean air wasn't so important, and he tried to roll back the nation's emission standards. But Congress gave California the right to set its own emission standards, as long as they are at least as strict as the national standards.

So California didn't follow Trump in the rollback. A number of states joined with California in seeking to maintain the Obama clean air standards. Now the US car market is split into two parts - clean and less clean.

So car manufacturing companies have a few choices. They can market cleaner and dirtier versions of each car model. Or they can go all-dirty and skip the clean air states. Or they can go all-clean and sell cleaner than required cars in the dirty air states.

A number of car companies chose to go all-clean. They believe they can earn the most money with that strategy. Capitalism at work, folks!