SACRAMENTO, CA – The lead climate regulator of California has been challenged in multiple lawsuits over recent adjustments “to a leading climate program (that) will create additional pollution in the state’s San Joaquin Valley,” according to a story in the Sacramento Bee.
The allegations filed against the California Air Resources Board (CARB) state that CARB “did not assess or alleviate environmental harms the new transportation pollution rules under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), related to biofuels made with crop and animal waste, will cause,” noted the Bee.
There are, added the Bee, currently two main lawsuits brought by environmental groups, including the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability on behalf of Food & Water Watch, and Defensores del Valle Central para el Aire y Agua (DVCAA)…