"CARB must acknowledge the environmental and public health harms caused by its prioritization of pollution-heavy practices over sustainable solutions," said María Arévalo, a spokesperson for Defensores del Valle Central para el Aire y Agua Limpio. "Our concerns have been ignored."
The update faced controversy over its potential to raise gasoline prices, as well as environmental harms from biofuels. Roughly 80% of the program's billions in annual credits go to the renewable natural gas, biodiesel, and renewable diesel industries.
Environmental critics have argued these fuels perpetuate harmful waste practices in some of the most polluted regions of California, can lead to food shortages abroad and contribute to global deforestation.
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