CARB and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Unaccountable, Ineffective, and Driving Up Costs Across California’s Economy

By Timothy Belev
05/06/2025
The California Air Resources Board has entrenched itself as one of the least accountable, least effective, and most costly bureaucracies in the history of California politics. The goal of CARB is simple: to lower the amount of greenhouse gas emissions in California. The way CARB aims to achieve this is primarily by adjusting the Low...

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Quantifying the Impact of “Low Carbon” Fuel

By Edward Ring
11/13/2024
On November 8, a Friday evening, after a day long marathon of public comment, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved updates to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. According to the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, the price impact of compliance with the new rules “could be $0.65 per gallon in the near term, $0.85 per gallon...

TAGS: California Air Resources Board, carbon emissions