Environmental groups challenged California’s leading climate regulator Wednesday, alleging in new lawsuits that a recent update to a leading climate program will create additional pollution in the state’s San Joaquin Valley.
Two separate complaints allege the California Air Resources Board 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. “CARB must acknowledge the environmental and public health harms caused by its prioritization of pollution-heavy practices over sustainable solutions,” said María Arévalo, a spokesperson for environmental justice group Defensores del Valle Central para el Aire y Agua Limpio. “Our concerns have been ignored.”
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