CARB approves unprecedented climate action plan to shift world’s 4th largest economy from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy

The California Air Resources Board today approved the final proposed 2022 Scoping Plan, a world-leading roadmap to address climate change that cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 85% and achieves carbon neutrality in 2045. The 2022 Scoping Plan provides a detailed sector-by-sector roadmap to guide the world’s fourth-largest economy away from its current dependance on petroleum and fossil gas to clean and renewable energy resources and zero-emission vehicles.

Governor Deukmejian announces Department of Waste Management

Gov. George Deukmejian today released the broad outline of a plan to reorganize his administration to create a Department of Waste Management. 

The new department would coordinate the state's efforts to manage the handling_, 1 disposal and cleanup of wastes.,, both toxic and non-toxic. The new department also will be the focal point for a coordinated effort with the private sector to develop new and more effective technology to deal effectively with wastes. 

DUFFY SUPPORTS GOVERNOR'S NEW ANTI-TOXIC PROPOSAL

Gordon Duffy, the Governor's Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Chairman of the Administration's Hazardous Waste Task Force, released the following statement today regarding the new Toxics Department proposal announced by Governor Deukmejian: 

CARB approves amendments to Off-Road Regulation to further reduce emissions

Sacramento —The California Air Resources Board (CARB) today approved amendments to the In-Use Off-Road Diesel-Fueled Fleets Regulation (Off-Road Regulation) aimed at further reducing emissions from the off-road sector. The amendments will require fleets to phase-out use of the oldest and highest polluting off-road diesel vehicles in California; prohibit the addition of high-emitting vehicles to a fleet; and require the use of R99 or R100 renewable diesel in off-road diesel vehicles.

CARB deploys ‘Dirty Truck Detector’ along popular Fresno truck route

SACRAMENTO – On Tuesday, Nov. 15, 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 Fresno using a mobile emissions monitoring device: the Portable Emissions Acquisition System (PEAQS), which screens for high-emitting vehicles as they drive under it. CARB staff expect to process over 1,000 vehicles at the location with heavy truck traffic.