Environmental groups filed a pair of lawsuits Wednesday against California’s trading program for transportation fuel emissions, arguing that its support of biofuels will increase air pollution and greenhouse gases.
The suits are targeting the California Air Resources Board’s low-carbon fuel standard, which the agency amended last month.
The first suit, by Communities for a Better Environment, filed in Fresno County Superior Court, alleges CARB violated the California Environmental Quality Act by failing to analyze the environmental impact of incentivizing biofuels in the amendments to the low-carbon fuel standard that it approved last month.
Another one, filed by Food and Water Watch, Defensores Del Valle Central Para El Aire Y Agua Limpio and the Animal Legal Defense Fund in the same court, alleges CARB violated CEQA by failing to properly analyze the environmental effects of incentivizing the production of gas from dairy manure.
