Items Tagged with 'California Air Resources Board'

Just a week before President Trump’s inauguration, California Air Resources Board Executive Director Steven Cliff wrote to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw the board’s waiver to broadly enforce its Advanced Clean Fleets rule.

Lindsay Buckley was appointed director of communications at the California Air Resources Board. Anne Castle, one of Biden’s top water officials at the Interior Department, submitted her resignation.  

Brad Anderson will retire from California Dairies. Trinity Fruit Co. hired Anna O’Brien as a social media and public relations specialist. 

The California Air Resources Board has approved a 20% limit on credits for renewable diesel produced from soybean, canola and sunflower oils, despite industry complaints that the cap was unnecessary and would increase the state's reliance on foreign feedstocks for biofuels.

Donald Trump has reclaimed the presidency, and Republicans will take charge of the Senate in January. Those results have big implications for a lot of issues, including trade and immigration as well as tax and regulatory policy that are critical to agriculture.

In this opinion piece, Floyd Vergara, senior policy adviser at Clean Fuels Alliance America, says biofuels have been responsible for a substantial amount of emission reductions under California's low carbon fuel standard and they need to continue to be supported in the next phase. 

The second of a two-part series on the impact of renewable natural gas on the agricultural sector.

Renewable natural gas, or methane from non-fossil sources, continues to penetrate the nation’s energy system, led by a replacement for diesel fuel in California.