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Governor Schwarzenegger Signs CARB Enforcement Reforms into Law, Announces CERT
–SB1402 passed both Senate and Assembly with unanimous, bipartisan support–
Alexandria, VA – September 30, 2010 – Californians for Enforcement Reform and Transparency (CERT) today announced that on September 28, 2010, Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB1402 into law. SB1402 immediately requires the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) enforcement program to be transparent, consistent and fair. CERT members [...]
Dutton’s Air Board Transparency Measure Signed by Governor
New law to require Air Resources Board to explain their actions takes effect immediately.
SACRAMENTO – A significant pro-business piece of legislation authored by Senate Republican Leader-elect Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) that forces the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to explain their actions more clearly to the businesses they regulate was signed into law this week [...]
CARB Enforcement Reforms Ready for California Governor’s Signature
Passes both Senate and Assembly with unanimous, bipartisan support
Alexandria, VA – August 30, 2010 – The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) today announced that on August 26, 2010, in a unanimous 32-0 vote, the California State Senate adopted SB 1402, a bill that will begin to make the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) enforcement program [...]
California Senate Votes 32-0 In Favor of CARB Enforcement Reforms
(Sacramento, CA May 27, 2010) – On May 24th, 2010, in a unanimous 32-0 vote, the California State Senate adopted a bill that will begin to make much needed improvements to the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) enforcement program.
Former CARB Chairman, John Dunlap, sees this bill as a critical first step towards improving CARB’s enforcement [...]
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 [...]
State air board must clean its own house
By John Dunlap
Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.
Featured in the San Diego Tribune – Article here
The California Air Resources Board recently threw out a tainted study about the health effects of diesel truck emissions after it was disclosed that the author of the report had lied about his academic credentials. CARB officials had known [...]
Clearing The Air: Coalition Calls For Transparency on CARB Penalty Policies
A new business coalition will urge the California Air Resource Board (CARB) to craft a formal enforcement policy that spells out its structure for calculating penalties and make public how it assesses those penalties – rather than acting inconsistently on an ad hoc basis.
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