California Air Resources Board staff proposal ignores Board members’ efforts to curb avoided methane crediting and regulate the dairy industry’s biggest polluters
Proposed changes lay bare CARB staff’s commitment to protecting the investment portfolios of factory farm gas producers and shielding the largest livestock operations from the impact of regulation, even if doing so comes at a cost to Californians whose air and water is polluted by massive livestock operations in and near their neighborhoods.
Governor Newsom signs warehouse development bill, ignores environmental justice concerns
AB 98 fails to consider the cumulative health impacts of the warehouse industry on communities, treating warehouses as individual sources of pollution when the problem is much bigger.
As extreme heat crisis worsens, California decision makers must take urgent action
Temperatures soared in the San Joaquin and Eastern Coachella Valleys this past month, shattering previous heat records. However, breaking heat records is nothing new these days because of the effects of climate change. Year after year, vulnerable people throughout California face the dangerous impacts of extreme heat. And year after year, California decision makers fall […]
State budget cuts escalate urgent need for robust, equitable climate bond on the November ballot
We need our leaders to put an equitable climate bond on the November ballot. The climate bond must direct significant funding to programs that support environmental justice communities that were cut in the budget.
Central Valley residents condemn decision by Assembly Agriculture Committee to block legislative solution to environmental justice harms on Californians living near dairies
Promoting factory farm gas as a “clean energy” solution to unchecked methane creation and emissions is a tragic example of state-sponsored pollution. We need to stop regulatory exceptionalism and prevent dairies from profiting while severely harming disadvantaged communities.
Central Valley community group refuses to participate in Low Carbon Fuel Standard workshop ignoring their concerns
Factory farm gas is not the climate future we need. It locks California into a dangerous status quo that will continue to undermine our climate goals and incentivize unsustainable, polluting megadairies in the San Joaquin Valley.
Environmental justice coalition and communities support legislative effort to address incentives for methane production in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Assembly Bill 2870 would require the California Air Resources Board to correct its inaccurate characterization of factory farm gas as the lowest carbon fuel by requiring it to eliminate avoided methane emissions from livestock manure in its calculation of carbon intensity as part of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
Settlement agreement reached over water and habitability at Oasis Mobile Home Park
Twenty-two residents of the Oasis Mobile Home Park, along with a tenant association called Juntos Por Un Mejor Oasis, settled their civil suit against Park owners on February 21. The lawsuit sought remedies for exposure to arsenic at nearly 10 times the drinking water limit, sewage spills, and other unacceptable and unlawful problems.
Pixley residents challenge Tulare County over experimental hydrogen project with no environmental review
On March 4, Pixley Residents for Environmental Justice, represented by Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability and Chatten-Brown Law Group, filed a lawsuit in Tulare County Superior Court challenging the County of Tulare’s approval of a 28-acre industrial hydrogen plant in the community of Pixley.
California Air Resources Board members question incentives for polluting fuels in state climate program, support direct regulation of livestock methane in 2024
At its September 28 meeting, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held an eight hour discussion about changes to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) — a major clean transportation program in desperate need of reform to protect the health of frontline communities and help California actually achieve its climate goals. Currently, the program overwhelmingly […]
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