CERT Legislative Success (April 2010)
CERT Legislative Success (April 2010)
CERT has succeeded in helping to develop proposed legislation in California that would promote “good government” policies and procedures to ensure CARB’s enforcement programs operate in a more transparent, equitable, and consistent manner and focus on grossly non-compliant products that harm air quality. This proposed legislation has broad bipartisan support and is sponsored by nine Senators – roughly 25% of members of the California Senate.
Enclosed is a letter from April 2010 and materials prepared by CERT which supports this legislation. On April 19th, Bill Guerry presented the enclosed testimony to the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee at a hearing on the bill. That committee unanimously adopted (with seven aye votes) a “scaled back” version of the Dutton/CERT bill.
The adopted bill requires CARB to adopt a written penalty policy based on six objective criteria – primarily the violation’s impact on air quality – and requires CARB to be much more transparent in explaining the specific alleged violations and CARB’s basis of proposed penalties.
