SACRAMENTO - The Clean Mobility Options Voucher Pilot Program (CMO) is making about $33 million in voucher funding available to eligible applicants and communities to launch and support new and existing shared mobility projects across the state.
Today at noon (PST), California and Quebec released the results of the 34th joint cap-and-trade auction of carbon allowances from both jurisdictions. The final numbers include sales figures and settlement prices for 2023 (current) and 2026 (advance) vintages.
Number Offered: 56,395,720
Number Sold: 56,395,720
Settlement Price: $27.85
RIVERSIDE – On Tuesday, Jan. 24, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will hold an enforcement event aimed at upholding air pollution laws by identifying high-emitting heavy-duty trucks along a popular truck route in Ontario using a mobile emissions monitoring device: the Portable Emissions Acquisition System (PEAQS), which screens for high-emitting vehicles as they drive under it. High-emitting vehicles will be flagged for full inspection, including smoke test, and violators may be cited.
SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board (CARB) reached a settlement agreement with one of the largest, privately held, solid waste companies in California, Burrtec Waste Industries Inc. and its sister company EDCO Disposal Corp., for $305,000 for violations of CARB’s Truck and Bus Regulation.
SACRAMENTO — The California Air Resources Board applauds U.S. EPA’s proposal to strengthen the primary health-based national air quality standard for fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5 or soot. EPA made this proposal to revise the annual standard after conducting a careful review of the most recent health science.
Prompted by estimates that California growers are losing as much as 25 percent of some crops to smog damage, the Air Resources Board has speeded up its research into the problem with $1 million in studies over the next five years. The studies are intended to improve loss estimates among the state's largest cash crops and could lead to development of smog-resistant varieties or cultivating practices, such as fertilizing and irrigation habits, that better protect crops.
The State Air Resources Board today approved more than $2.5 million in research projects, highlighted by funds for Southern California's first system to measure dry acidic fallout, considered to be the region's biggest source of acidic air pollution, and to study the feasibility of a Smog Check-like program for big trucks and buses.
The State Air Resources Board's program of roadside checks of cars picked at random, as part of a survey of maintenance habits and tampering with anti-smog systems, will be moving to San Diego County for a two weeks beginning May 6, 1985.
In cooperation with the California Highway Patrol, cars will be flagged down in designated test areas for a voluntary 20-minute check of the anti-smog system and a measurement of the car's tailpipe emission levels. No citations will be issued for illegal engine tampering, since the tests are voluntary and strictly for ARB research use only.
In a move aimed at reducing unexpected emissions increases and lowering repair costs for motorists, the Air Resources Board has required car makers to make the "brain of modern electronic anti-smog systems more durable and capable of diagnosing engine problems, starting with the 1988 model year.
The Air Resources Board, with the aid of the California Highway Patrol and the Bureau of Automotive Repair, will be conducting roadside checks in Ventura County during the week of April 29, as part of a statewide study of anti-smog system tampering and the success of the state's Smog Check Program.