Press Release: 128 scientists and academics urge Governor Newsom, CARB to fix flawed Scoping Plan
“We cannot afford to gamble on our future”: Experts call for plan that reflects the latest science; disregard unproven technologies.
Press Releases
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Press Release – CARB’s Draft Scoping Plan and Environmental Justice Recommendations
Today, the California Air Resources Board released a draft of the state’s 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update. Environmental justice groups slammed the draft plan, citing its failure to phase out fossil fuel production, lack of investment in clean transportation for low-income Californians, and dependence on failed carbon capture and other polluting technologies.
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Environmental Justice Groups Call for Full, Coordinated Phase Out of Fossil Fuels by 2045 in California’s Climate Change Scoping Plan
In a letter sent Wednesday, environmental justice groups called on CARB to set California on a path toward a full, coordinated phaseout of polluting oil refineries by 2045; scaled up investments in mass transit, electric car and truck programs for low-income Californians; and the elimination of climate policy dead-ends in the 2022 climate change scoping…