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USEPA Considers Allowing Dirty Trucks; CARB Fights Back
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.
December 6, 2017
California Joins Seven Other States in Lawsuit Over Clean Transportation Rules
Eight states, California among them, filed a lawsuit this week challenging the Trump administration decision to suspend a rule that requires transportation projects to measure and report on the greenhouse gas emissions they produce.
September 22, 2017
ARB Measures Pollution Exposure Risk of Drivers, Bicyclists, Transit Riders
A recent CARB study found that people traveling by car, bus, and bike are exposed, generally, to similar levels of pollution, while the clear winners—those who breathe in the least black carbon, fine particle matter, and ultrafine particulates—are people traveling by electric-powered light rail.
September 1, 2017
ARB Releases Proposed GHG Reduction Goals for Regions
After 2020 California GHG emission reduction goals will become more stringent, and therefore harder to reach. Since transportation is the largest single contributor to GHG emissions, achieving targets requires finding ways to make it easy for people to drive less. But regions say they can't control driving, and they don't have enough money.
June 19, 2017
Appeals Court Rules That Cap-and-Trade Is Not a Tax
The court ruled that California's cap-and-trade system involves voluntary participation and the purchase of a commodity with value—neither of which are “the hallmarks of a tax.”
April 7, 2017
After Years of Inaction, a Rush to Approve CA Transportation Funding Bill
A fix to a late amendment wasn't enough for environmental justice advocates, and the Republicans--well, their support is irrelevant. But the rush to pass S.B. 1 is hampering what could be a very good transportation funding bill.
April 4, 2017
Air Resources Board Releases White Paper on Health Benefits of Activity
It's not exactly news, but yes: physical activity and exercise is necessary for good health. And the way communities are built can help increase or decrease how much physical activity people get.
March 29, 2017
Air Resources Board: CA Needs to Align Transportation Funding With Climate Goals
“We have an ongoing discussion in this state that needs to be resolved,” said ARB chair Mary Nichols. “Whenever you add capacity to existing roads, it does create induced demand, and it fills up immediately.”
March 27, 2017
Air Resources Board to Discuss Greenhouse Emission Targets Today
More ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets are needed, but regional governments say they can't meet them without more aggressive changes--which they say they don't have the power to impose.
March 22, 2017
California Sues to Defend Auto Emission Rules
Governor Brown didn't mince words. The decision to "weaken emission standards in cars is an unconscionable gift to polluters," he wrote. "Once again, you’ve put the interests of big oil ahead of clean air and politics ahead of science."
March 16, 2017
