Environmental justice and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board (CARB) over its approval of amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), arguing that the amendments incentivize factory farm pollution and fail to adequately address its environmental and public health impacts.
Today, 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).
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. “CARB must acknowledge the environmental and public health harms caused by its prioritization of pollution-heavy practices over sustainable solutions,” said Defensores del Valle Central para el Aire y Agua Limpio representative María Arévalo. “In the Central Valley, we live near 90% of cows in California and some of the largest dairy operations in the entire world. We raise time and time again that the conditions and impacts in our communities are getting worse as dairies are getting bigger and dairy digesters are installed. Despite our ongoing advocacy from the local to the federal level, but more than anywhere at CARB, our concerns have been ignored.”“It is more critical than ever that Governor Newsom gets it right on climate, but on the issue of factory farm climate pollution Newsom is prioritizing corporate profits over protecting the health and welfare of Californians,” said Food & Water Watch Staff Attorney Tyler Lobdell. “Governor Newsom’s CARB is taking California in the wrong direction, incentivizing dirty factory farm biogas buildouts to pay factory farms to pollute. Our climate and communities deserve bette
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