CA Air Resources Board Approves Plan for Spending VW Mitigation Fee
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CARB will focus its share of the VW settlement on jump-starting electric vehicle technology for freight and transit vehicles.
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Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets Are “Largely Symbolic,” says ARB
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A year-long effort to set regional GHG targets leaves a gap no one seems to know how to fill
Joint Legislative Committee Discusses Future of Cap-and-Trade, Climate Policies
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Cap-and-trade is working, says CARB, but needs to work harder. Meanwhile federal support is disappearing, and the administration may actively undermine the state's work. And disagreement about a definition cloaks a wider point of conflict on cap-and-trade.
Air Resources Board Actually Talks About the Importance of Walking, Biking
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There was some traction for the idea that more focus on and investment in the role of active transportation in meeting climate change and health goals would be a good thing.
Report Recommends Very Local Emissions Monitoring, and Lots of It
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A report released today from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) recommends that California’s air monitoring agencies start using available technology to measure local air quality, especially where people live close to facilities that emit harmful pollutants. The California Air Resources Board (CARB), with local air quality management districts, currently maintains forty sites that monitor local […]
USEPA Considers Allowing Dirty Trucks; CARB Fights Back
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The US EPA is considering repealing a rule that prevents high-polluting, older truck engines from being repackaged and sold as “new trucks.” The California Air Resources Board charges that many of the refurbished engines in the kits are older engines that don't meet current emissions standards.