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Mahoney Environmental is expanding its support for sustainability compliance regarding low carbon fuel programs like California's LCFS and CARB.

Yesterday, groups filed an opening brief in their case to force California’s Air Resources Board to reform its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) so that it no longer perversely encourages factory farms to pollute at the expense of rural communities in California and across the country. In amending the LCFS in 2024 to double down on incentives for factory farm “biogas” production, the groups argue that the Air Resources Board violated the California Environmental Quality Act, the California Administrative Procedure Act, and the Global Warming Solutions Act, California landmark climate law from 2006. Groups include Defensores del Valle Central para el Aire y Agua Límpio (“Defensores”), Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the Center for Food Safety, and Food & Water Watch. The brief, filed in Fresno Superior Court, advances three main arguments: CARB violated California law by causing disproportionate impacts in low-income communities. CARB violated California law by allowing fossil fuel companies to buy fake LCFS offset credits from factory farms to claim lower climate emissions. CARB failed to disclose, analyze, and mitigate the significant environmental impacts caused by the LCFS Amendments. “CARB is encouraging the production of, and has failed to regulate, excessive dairy manure pollution at the expense...

A novel class of light-charged air filtration systems (LCFSs) is designed by integrating a photothermal-ferroelectric coating layer (PCL) with a polypropylene melt-blown membrane. The LCFS offers energy-efficient, light-activated surface charge generation and facilitates continuous capture of hazardous airborne particles with FE exceeding 99%, enabling sustainable air purification and anti-clogging performance. The LCFS is demonstrated as a proof of concept for indoor air purification, epidemic disease prevention, and personal hygiene protection.

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In a new paper, Tzu-Hui Chen, Rich Sexton, and I show that biofuels derived from vegetable oils have likely increased, rather than reduced, global emissions.

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The county’s prosecutor dismissed criminal charges against the manufacturing plant employees who killed two feral cats in a trash compactor

Gov. Gavin Newsom said California would fill the void for residents if the Trump administration killed a $7,500 E.V. tax credit.

California regulators just voted to ignore the long-term environmental and social costs of factory-farm incentives. Our climate solutions must not come at the expense of environmental justice.