California Air Resources Board

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) today filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the Port of Los Angeles’ approval of the revised China Shipping Terminal project and certification of its Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The China Shipping Terminal is located at the Port of Los Angeles, in close proximity to residential communities that are already exposed to disproportionately high amounts of air pollution.

SACRAMENTO – Today the California Air Resources Board announced a settlement of $160,000 with Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. to resolve clean-air violations related to the sale of small off-road engines, typically used as replacements in lawn mowers and leaf blowers, in California. This is the first time that a manufacturer has been cited for failing to comply with the regulation specifically as it relates to replacement engines since its adoption in 1990.

SACRAMENTO – California’s latest greenhouse gas data shows that while the state continues to stay below its 2020 target for emissions, there is much more work to do to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.

SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board (CARB) today sent a letter to automakers and other vehicle and engine manufacturers encouraging them to disclose by the end of the year any unapproved hardware or software programs that impact emissions control systems in vehicles sold in California.

SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board today announced a settlement with Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc. for $1,990,650 - the largest penalty to date related to clean air violations for the state’s groundbreaking Ocean-Going Vessel At Berth Regulation.

On October 1, 2020, CalEPA Secretary Jared Blumenfeld and CARB Chair Nichols responded to the September 28, 2020, letter from U.S. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to Governor Gavin Newsom.

Executive order directs state to require that, by 2035, all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California be zero-emission vehicles

Transportation currently accounts for more than 50 percent of California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

SACRAMENTO – Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has paid $253,300 in penalties to the California Air Resources Board for violating the Ocean-Going Vessel At-Berth Regulation. The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego.

SACRAMENTO – Another major automaker has settled a case for using illegal defeat devices to bypass vehicle emissions control equipment in diesel vehicles. The California Air Resources Board today announced the settlement with Daimler AG, and Mercedes-Benz, USA, just one day before the fifth anniversary of disclosure of similar violations by Volkswagen. California will receive $285.6 million from two Daimler Consent Decrees, and the company will repair the affected vehicles at no cost to owners.

SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board has approved the first three Community Emissions Reduction Programs within the South Coast Air Quality Management District under Assembly Bill 617.