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The Truck and Bus Rule is considered by the Air Resources Board and other organizations such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Environmental Defense Fund as a win-win for the State of California: reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, reducing fuel use, providing fuel and operating cost-savings for truck owners, and reducing smog-forming pollution, in addition to providing human ...
Since Newsom signed a law to ban new oil and gas wells near homes and schools in 2022, oil companies poured millions into qualifying a measure on the November ballot to overturn it.
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is a department within the California Health and Human Services Agency that finances and administers a number of individual health care service delivery programs, including Medi-Cal, which provides health care services to low-income people.
Since January 2009, all new vehicles sold in California have been required to be labeled with a California Air Resources Board window sticker showing both a Smog Score and a Global Warming Score. The scores are on a 1–10 scale, with 5 being average and with 10 being the best (i.e., emitting the least carbon dioxide).
Legislators and Gov. Newsom did not heed warnings that adding new mandates on oil companies would drive them out of the state. One already has. The California Democrats’ oil strategy is a big bust.
Some of the nation's largest truck makers on Thursday pledged to stop selling new gas-powered vehicles in California by the middle of the next decade, part of an agreement with state regulators ...
The early California oil industry has served as a setting for several notable fictional novels and films: Oil! (1927), a novel of social criticism by Upton Sinclair, is set against the background of the California oil industry and is loosely based on the career of Edward Doheny and events related to the Teapot Dome scandal.
The Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, [95] also called the Clean Transportation Program, arose out of 2007 law and is intended to drive growth in electric vehicles. [96] California faces a potential shortage in charging stations, [97] and setup California Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Project (CALeVIP) program to ...