Documents outlining the EPA's plan to roll back vehicle emission standards reference California by name 27 times.

If the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds its regulations on greenhouse gas emissions - as the agency proposed this week - North Carolina could expect to see more fossil-fuel burning power plants,

That assessment followed a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision in its landmark Massachusetts v. EPA case that said the EPA has the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and required the agency to make a scientific finding on whether those emissions endanger public health.