CARB
The California Air Resources Board, also known as CARB or ARB, is the "clean air agency" in the government of California. Established in 1967 in the Mulford-Carrell Act, combining the Bureau of Air Sanitation and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board, CARB is a department within the cabinet-level California Environmental Protection Agency. California is the only state that is permitted to have such a regulatory agency, since it is the only state that had one before the passage of the federal Clean Air Act. Other states are permitted to follow CARB standards, or use the federal ones, but not set their own.
The stated goals of CARB include:
- attaining and maintaining healthy air quality;
- protecting the public from exposure to toxic air contaminants; and
- providing innovative approaches for complying with air pollution rules and regulations.
The governing board is made up of 11 members appointed by the state's governor. Half of the appointees are experts in professional and science fields such as medicine, chemistry, physics, meteorology, engineering, business, and law. Others represent the pollution control agencies of regional districts within California - Los Angeles region, San Francisco Bay area, San Diego, the San Joaquin Valley, and other districts.
CARB's organizational structure
CARB has nine major divisions:
- Administrative Services Division
- Enforcement Division
- Mobile Source Control Division
- Mobile Source Operations Division
- Monitoring and Laboratory Division
- Office of Information Services
- Planning and Technical Support Division
- Research Division
- Stationary Source Division
Programs initiated by CARB:
The following are the programs initiated by CARB:
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| Alternative Fuel Vehicle Incentive Program | Alternative Fuel Vehicle Incentive Program (also known as Fueling Alternatives) is funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), offered throughout the State of |
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Zero-emissions vehicle
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California zero-emissions vehicle: The CARB ZEV program was enacted by the Californian government to promote the use of zero emission vehicles. The program’s goal is to reduce the pervasive air pollution affecting the main metropolitan areas in the state, particularly in Los Angeles, where prolonged pollution episodes are frequent.
The first definition has its origin in the California ZEV rule, adopted as part of the 1990 Low-Emission Vehicle (LEV I) Program mandated by CARB. The ZEV regulation has evolved and been modified. several times since 1990. Several new partial or low-emission categories were created and defined as follows:
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Low-carbon fuel standard
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The Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) requires oil refineries and distributors to ensure that the mix of fuel they sell in the Californian market meets the established declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions measured inCO2-equivalent grams per unit of fuel energy sold for transport purposes. The 2007 Governor's LCFS directive calls for a reduction of at least 10% in the carbon intensity of |
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