Opinion: CARB considers yet another costly plan
On Oct. 27, the California Air Resources Board met to consider a proposed regulation that will result in higher prices for everything that’s moved by truck in California, higher local taxes and fees, and higher utility rates.
CARB chair Randolph ticked off a list of two decades of new regulations on diesel engines that she said “have substantially reduced criteria pollutants and diesel particulate matter from trucks operating within California.” But the goal posts have been moved. “Meeting California’s public health, air quality, environmental justice and climate goals requires more emissions reductions than we can get from combustion-based strategies,” she said.
“Feasible,” the dictionary says, means “possible to do easily or conveniently,” but that’s not what it means in California. Here, “feasible” is a winking word added to aspirational goals when they’re written into state law without an economic analysis or any means of paying for them. Regulators take over from there, and suddenly “feasible” just means “forced.”
The Western States Trucking Association called the proposed regulation “a new unfunded mandate for which there is inadequate legal authority, financial resources, infrastructure and electric grid reliability.”
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