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CARB Releases First Draft Plan for Ambitious 2030 Climate Goals
CARB has released an initial draft plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in California to at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, as stipulated in SB 32. The Discussion Draft 2030 Target Scoping Plan Update recommends several potentially contentious strategies for reaching the state’s ambitious climate goal—the most aggressive target in North America, […]
CDFA Rewrites Proposed Quality-Control Regulation for Natural Gas Fuels
The California Department of Food and Agriculture has substantially rewritten its proposed natural gas fuel quality-control regulation and extended the implementation date by one year. In July, the CDFA proposed mandating a minimum amount of methane in natural gas fuels by Jan. 1, 2017, and imposing labeling requirements at the pump to ensure fuel purity. […]
CARB Proposes New SIP Measures in Strategy Workshop
At its Sept. 1 Proposed 2016 State Strategy workshop for the State Implementation Plan, CARB presented potential new SIP measures to reduce mobile source emissions and meet ozone standards, noting that existing programs achieve only two-thirds of the mandated greenhouse gas reductions in the South Coast air basin. The staff proposal calls for incentive funding […]
CDFA Proposes Contentious Quality-Control Regulations for NGV Fuels
None of the utility companies, clean fuel providers, and other natural gas industry stakeholders spoke in favor of proposed quality-control regulations at an Aug. 11 California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) hearing. The CDFA wants to mandate the amount of methane in NGV fuels and impose labeling requirements to ensure a minimum level of […]
Diesel Gallon Equivalent Approved as Natural Gas Method of Sale
After a three-year effort led by NGVAmerica, the National Conference on Weights and Measures has approved the diesel gallon equivalent (dge) standard as an official unit of sale for natural gas vehicle fuels. Until now, there has been no uniform and easily recognized standard for LNG sold to heavy-duty truck operators making the switch to […]
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