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.
SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board approved the Community Emissions Reduction Program for the Portside Community in San Diego. This is the first local plan brought forward by the San Diego Air Pollution Control District.
SACRAMENTO – The Phillips 66 Company has agreed to pay $200,000 in penalties for violations of California’s reformulated gasoline regulations.
OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) today filed a motion to intervene in support of South Coast Air Quality Management District’s (Air District) rule requiring warehouses to reduce emissions from heavy sources of on-road pollution that visit those warehouses.
Sacramento—The California Air Resources Board and the California Attorney General today sent comment letters in support of U.S. EPA’s proposal to restore more stringent federal standards for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger vehicles and light trucks.
SACRAMENTO – Yesterday the California Air Resources Board approved the Community Emissions Reduction Program (CERP) for the Eastern Coachella Valley. This is the second CERP approved by the board in the Salton Sea region and the fifth brought forward by the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Across California, the board has approved 10 CERPs as mandated under Assembly Bill 617.
SACRAMENTO – White River Marine Group, a manufacturer of fishing and recreational boats, has paid $203,500 in penalties for violating state anti-pollution laws relating to marine watercraft.
SACRAMENTO – Southern California Edison (SCE) has paid penalties of $350,000 after admitting it failed for three years to accurately report on its storage and use of sulfur hexafluoride. The California Air Resources Board today announced a settlement with SCE imposing those penalties.