California Air Resources Board

SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board today approved a measure that will require most newly manufactured small off-road engines such as those found in leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other equipment be zero emission starting in 2024. Portable generators, including those in recreational vehicles, would be required to meet more stringent standards in 2024 and meet zero-emission standards starting in 2028.

SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board (CARB) reached a settlement agreement with American Honda Motor Corporation, Inc. (Honda) of Torrance, California for $6.9 million for violations of CARB’s air quality regulations. This is the second enforcement action against Honda in the past two years.

SACRAMENTO – Today at noon (PST), California and Quebec released the results of the 29th joint cap-and-trade auction of carbon allowances from both jurisdictions. The final numbers include sales figures and settlement prices for 2019, 2020 and 2021(current) and 2024 (advance) vintages.

RIVERSIDE – The California Air Resources Board today approved a far-reaching $1.5 billion investment plan that will increase access to clean vehicles and clean mobility options through a wide variety of projects that support the transformation of California’s vehicle and equipment fleet to zero-emission.

RIVERSIDE – The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and its partners today dedicated a new state-of-the-art Southern California Headquarters in Riverside designed to carry CARB’s acclaimed research and vehicle emissions testing into the future. The new structure, designed to house research and testing of next-generation vehicles, continues a more than 50-year legacy of CARB’s previous labs where CARB set groundbreaking pollution standards for cars and trucks.

RIVERSIDE – The California Air Resources Board’s Clean Air Leadership Talks, featuring presentations on the work of all seven individual winners of the 2019 Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award, are set to take place at 2 p.m. this Thursday, November 18, 2021.

GLASGOW – At a ceremony in the Blue Zone today, the Transportation Decarbonisation Alliance shone a bright light on the urgent need for countries, regions and cities to rapidly invest in and upgrade their zero-emission charging and fueling infrastructure.

GLASGOW – At a ceremony in the Blue Zone at COP26 today, California assumed the presidency of the Transportation Decarbonisation Alliance (TDA)  – a unique collaboration bringing together countries, cities or regions and companies as the major drivers in sustainable, low carbon mobility – taking over its leadership from the Netherlands.

GLASGOW – At a ceremony in the Blue Zone today the California Air Resources Board, on behalf of the state of California, signed a Joint Declaration on cooperation in the fight against climate change with the governments of New Zealand and Québec.

SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board has announced that all businesses covered by the state’s cap-and-trade program have fully met their compliance obligations for their greenhouse gas emissions from 2018-2020 – achieving a 100% compliance rate.