In September 2018, the CARB approved several significant changes to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard
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What’s Next For California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard?
By Buck Endemann | K&L Gates LLPSign up and get Breaking Energy news in your inbox.
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By Environmental Defense Fund Energy Exchange Blog
It’s been a good couple of weeks for clean energy in sunny California, which continues to move buildings and transportation away from dirty fossil fuels. This increased focus is well-placed: emissions from the transportation sector remain unacceptably high, accounting for nearly 40 percent of harmful pollution in the state; buildings are also a significant contributor, responsible for as… Keep reading →
New Reports Raise Health Concerns About Emissions From California’s Oil And Gas Industry
By Environmental Defense Fund Energy Exchange Blog
For decades communities in California who live close to oil and gas facilities have reported experiencing unbearable odors of gas, headaches, nausea, respiratory problems, and even cardiac complications as a result of the industry’s emissions. The health impacts of oil and gas pollution were made crystal clear last year after a massive gas leak at… Keep reading →
Double Whammy for State Fuel Suppliers
By R. Morgan Gilhuly, Chris Jensen | Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, LLP
The following article was originally published in the San Francisco Daily Journal on December 3, 2014. Copyright 2014 Daily Journal Corporation, reprinted with permission.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is poised to readopt the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation in early 2015. With its readoption, CARB hopes to put to rest challenges that required a redo of the environmental analysis supporting the LCFS regulation. If all goes as planned, transportation fuel suppliers operating in California will face a regulatory environment in 2015 that is at once both more certain — with legal challenges to the LCFS largely resolved — and more daunting, as transportation fuels come under the “cap” on greenhouse gas emissions imposed by California’s cap-and-trade program.
