"The California Air Resources Board announced on Friday that the sale of all new diesel big rig trucks and buses will be banned in the state starting in 2036, coming in a year after a similar new gas-powered car bar was previously voted on," the Globe reported Friday.
"In addition to the 2036 sales ban on new diesel trucks and buses, CARB, also announced that all trucks in California are to be zero-emissions by 2042. Under these new regulations, also known as the Advanced Clean Fleets rule, CARB hopes to achieve a total zero-emissions truck and bus fleet by 2045, as well as have at least 1.6 million zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty trucks operating in the state by 2048.".
Why is California's Air Board using Chinese research to ban diesel trucks in the state? California has record low pollution levels.
Remember, this is the same California Air Resources Board which has a rich history of fraudulent diesel emission studies, violations of California's open meeting act, and even experimented on children with dangerous diesel exhaust.
California Globe can report that a number of USC professors in the Department of Preventive Medicine have received at least $268 million in air pollution research funding from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, according to Dr. James Enstrom, who believes that this massive amount of research funding has influenced their research findings and their continuing support for the South Coast Air Quality Management District regulations.
Tasked with overseeing climate change policy and improving California's air quality, the California Air Resources Board operates like no other state agency.
"The California Air Resources Board has not played by their own rules for a long time, and even moved the goal line. The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32, charged the California Air Resources Board with the responsibility of reducing California's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. This represents a 25 percent reduction statewide. However, the CARB took it one step beyond, and instead adopted the United Nation's goal:"To avert catastrophic warming," the world's scientists have concluded we must reduce GHGs to 80 - 90% below 1990 levels by 2050."
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