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The California Air Resources Board (CARB or ARB) is an agency of the government of California that aims to reduce air pollution.Established in 1967 when then-governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford-Carrell Act, combining the Bureau of Air Sanitation and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board, CARB is a department within the cabinet-level California Environmental Protection Agency.
On July 22, 2002, Governor Gray Davis approved AB 1493, a bill directing the California Air Resources Board to develop standards to achieve the maximum feasible and cost-effective reduction of greenhouse gases from motor vehicles. Now the California Vehicle Global Warming law, it requires automakers to reduce emissions by 30% by 2016.
On September 24, 2004, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted emissions standards for GHGs from new passenger cars, light-duty trucks and medium-duty vehicles. Not unlike the LDV Rule, California's regulations establish standards for CO 2 equivalent emissions from two classes of vehicles on a gram per mile basis. Also like those in ...
In the last four years, California has adopted some of the nation's most innovative air regulations, including a ban on new gasoline-powered car sales by 2035 and a prohibition against diesel ...
The Supreme Court ruled in an 8–0 decision that private companies cannot be sued by other parties for emissions-related issues, as this is a power specifically delegated to the EPA through the Clean Air Act under federal common law. [88] Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, 573 U.S. 302 (2014) The EPA issued new ...
California now has an official state bat (the pallid bat) thanks to one new law, and an official state mushroom (the golden chanterelle) thanks to another. But other laws could have a larger impact.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA / ˈ s iː. k w ə /) is a California statute passed in 1970 and signed in to law by then-governor Ronald Reagan, [1] [2] shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection.
AB 32 requires the California Air Resources Board (CARB or ARB) to create regulations and market mechanisms to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, a 30% statewide reduction, [3] with mandatory caps beginning in 2012 for significant emissions sources. The bill also allows the Governor to suspend the emissions caps ...