NGOs sue CARB over failture to address health and environmental impacts through LCFS

In California, environmental justice and environmental groups sued Governor Newsom’s California Air Resources Board (CARB) over its failure to adequately address the health and environmental impacts of its recently approved amendments to one of California’s flagship climate programs – the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

They say the LCFS incentivizes pollution in communities across the nation already overburdened with factory farm pollution, including those in California’s San Joaquin Valley, through lavish financial incentives for so-called “biogas” produced from manure. Petitioners seek to force CARB to disclose, analyze, and mitigate the significant environmental impact caused by the LCFS amendments as required by the California Environmental Quality Act. Californians have a right to know how their government’s decisions harm their environment and quality of life.