California Climate Plan Undermines Goals of Equity and Justice, Exacerbates Environmental Burdens
For too long, environmental justice communities have borne the brunt of pollution in California. A climate strategy that ignores or exacerbates these inequities is one that is rooted in climate injustice.
California regulators reject petition request to immediately initiate rulemaking to end credits for factory farm gas, despite adverse local pollution impacts
Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Richard Corey unilaterally rejected a petition request from a coalition of environmental justice, animal protection, and community groups to immediately initiate a rulemaking to eliminate credits for factory farm gas from one of California’s premier climate programs, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
California Air Resources Board Program Incentivizes Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Pollution from Dairy and Pig Farms
One of California’s primary climate programs, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), is dramatically overstating the climate benefits of using methane gas sourced from factory farms as a transportation fuel.
Climate credits for factory farm gas violate civil rights, fail to achieve climate benefits, states petition submitted to CARB
Environmental justice, animal rights, and community organizations urge CARB to eliminate credits for factory farm gas in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
Press Release: CARB votes to phase out Valley ag burning by 2025, fails to address immediate risks
Statement issued by Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability following a vote by the California Air Resources Board to phase out ag burning. FRESNO — While we are pleased that CARB voted to phase out agricultural (ag) burning in the San Joaquin Valley by 2025 and require development and implementation of a plan to do […]
Press Release: LCJA congratulates newest appointments to the California Air Resources Board
Healthy air and climate justice in California are inextricably linked to the Board’s leadership. We look forward to working with these incoming and returning members of the Board to realize true equity and environmental justice.
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