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Friday, July 25, 2014

AM Alert: Will gas price hikes trip up climate change efforts?

The California Air Resources Board concludes its two-day monthly meeting, 8:30 a.m. at the Cal/EPA building on I Street, with a presentation on updates to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. One of the centerpieces of the state’s fight against global warming, the standard is being considered for re-adoption next year with a couple of amendments to its credit program.

Under the 2007 executive order by then-Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger, fuel producers must reduce the “carbon intensity” of their products by 10 percent by 2020, taking into account the entire process – from growing corn for ethanol to shipping fuel to California.
The standard survived a legal challenge last month when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a lawsuitbrought by oil and out-of-state farm groups.

via: http://www.sacbee.com/capitol-alert/




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