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CARB Newsclips for March 27, 2017. This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. CARB BUSINESS The Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) will conduct a public meeting at the time and place noted below to consider Truck Field Enforcement Activities and New Screening Technology for High Emitting Vehicles. DATE: April 27, 2017 TIME: 9:00 a.m. LOCATION: California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board Byron Sher Auditorium, 2nd Floor 1001 I Street Sacramento, California 95814 WEBCAST: http://www.cal-span.org/ The California Air Resources Board (CARB) invites you to participate in a public workshop on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-18 Funding Plan for Low Carbon Transportation Investments, Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), and the potential $25 million Volkswagen settlement funds for zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) aspects of vehicle replacement programs. The meeting will be held at the following time and place: Date: Thursday, April 6, 2017 Time: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Place: Cal/EPA Headquarters Building Coastal Hearing Room, Second Floor 1001 I Street Sacramento, California 95814 A meeting notice for the workshop is posted at: https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aqip/meetings/meetings.htm ADVANCED CLEAN CARS https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2017-03-24/california-sets-vehicle-pollution-rules-after-trump-brakes-us-plan http://www.npr.org/2017/03/26/521590802/in-conflict-with-trump-agenda-california-sets-stricter-auto-emissions-standards http://www.businessinsider.com/carb-california-rollback-trump-automakers-2017-3 http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1109575_electric-aston-martin-rapide-carb-reaffirms-emissions-standards-e15-battle-todays-car-news http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/California-Air-Regulators-Vote-Keep-Tough-Fuel-Standards-417088043.html http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/California-Air-Regulators-Vote-Keep-Tough-Fuel-Standards-417088043.html http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/25/new-york-times-digital-california-upholds-emissions-standards.html http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/290023/sticking-to-states-stricter-emission-standards.html https://www.autoconnectedcar.com/2017/03/carb-votes-for-clean-air-vetoes-trump-epa-keeps-2022-2025-emissions-standards/ http://www.autoblog.com/2017/03/26/california-emissions-standards-carb-defies-trump/ http://publicradioeast.org/post/conflict-trump-agenda-california-sets-stricter-auto-emissions-standards http://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/109898-california-doubles-down-on-cleaner-transportation-socalgas-sees-ngv-gains http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052107 CAP AND TRADE A senior's struggle to root out elusive cap-and-trade charge. Ontario residents shouldn’t have to work their way through a “rat’s maze” to figure out the cap-and-trade charge on their natural gas bills, Mississauga senior Muriel Chudiak says. Since the fee kicked in on Jan. 1, Chudiak has been on a mission to get the Ontario Energy Board and Ontario Liberal government to stop “hiding” it in the delivery charge. http://www.shorelinebeacon.com/2017/03/26/a-seniors-struggle-to-root-out-cap-and-trade-charge AIR POLLUTION California's Clean-Air Problem Is a Lot Bigger Than Just Trump. No state is tougher on dirty air than California. How tough? So tough that, if trends hold, it may fall short of its own goals. As President Donald Trump moves to roll back decades worth of regulation, the Golden State has positioned itself as America’s bulwark of environmental protection. The reality behind that is complex, and not only because the Trump… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-27/california-s-clean-air-problem-is-a-lot-bigger-than-just-trump L.A. officials push for new steps to address health risks from homebuilding near freeways. In a new push to address health risks from a surge in residential construction near freeways, Los Angeles officials have requested a study of development restrictions, design standards and other steps to protect residents from traffic pollution. Planning, transportation and other officials should… http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-freeway-pollution-study-20170324-story.html New technology highlights potential toxic risks in Southern California air. As the reports began landing on Wayne Nastri’s desk last fall showing alarmingly high levels of cancer-causing pollution had been unexpectedly detected in a working-class area of southeast Los Angeles County, a stark concern arose: This may not be an isolated problem. The reports were scooping up data from a new generation of monitors deployed by Nastri’s agency… http://www.ocregister.com/articles/air-747618-district-paramount.html Residents say ‘zero emission technology’ not enough to reduce pollution concerns. Efforts to improve the Inland region’s air quality through the use of cleaner technology is encouraging, explained Erlinda Murillo, who owns a small home about two blocks away from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railyard in San Bernardino and several hundred feet from Omnitrans’ corporate headquarters. http://iecn.com/residents-say-zero-emission-technology-not-enough-reduce-pollution-concerns/ China Air Pollution: 'Green Necklace' Project Could Help Beijing's Smog Problem. Chinese officials are taking a green approach to solving the country’s air pollution problem, starting with a new project in Beijing and the surrounding province of Hebei to plant more trees and shrubs in surrounding wetlands. Hebei’s government said green belts would be planted all around Beijing, creating a “green necklace”… http://www.ibtimes.com/china-air-pollution-green-necklace-project-could-help-beijings-smog-problem-2515640 New Pollution Detection Tech Highlights Toxic Risks in Southern California Air. Scattered on telephones polls in Paramount neighborhoods, the technology for the first time allowed regulators to track how pollution from industrial plants was traveling across the community. As the reports began landing on Wayne Nastri’s desk last fall showing alarmingly high levels of cancer-causing pollution had been… http://www.govtech.com/fs/New-Pollution-Detection-Tech-Highlights-Toxic-Risks-in-Southern-California-Air.html CLIMATE CHANGE EPA chief: Trump to undo Obama plan to curb global warming. President Donald Trump in the coming days will sign a new executive order that unravels his predecessor's sweeping plan to curb global warming, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday. EPA chief Scott Pruitt said the executive order to be signed Tuesday will undo the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, an environmental regulation that restricts greenhouse gas emissions… http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_CLIMATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT OTHER RELATED STORIES https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-26/trump-said-to-issue-far-reaching-reversal-of-obama-climate-push http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article140878018.html http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/26/trump-climate/99668578/ http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1109538_trump-administration-goal-undo-every-climate-change-effort http://www.voanews.com/a/trump-to-roll-back-obama-era-environmental-rules/3783597.html http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060052111 Threatened U.S. pullout might help, not hobble, global climate pact. A 2015 global pact for fighting climate change will benefit in some ways at least if U.S. President Donald Trump carries out a threat to pull out, backers say, in a shift from gloom about the fate of a deal that took two decades to negotiate. The Paris Agreement requires consensus for all decisions, meaning the withdrawal of a recalcitrant United States… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-agreement-idUSKBN16Y1SP One of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found new evidence in its favor. Ever since 2012, scientists have been debating a complex and frankly explosive idea about how a warming planet will alter our weather — one that, if it’s correct, would have profound implications across the Northern Hemisphere and especially in its middle latitudes, where hundreds of millions of people live. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/27/one-of-the-most-troubling-ideas-about-climate-change-just-found-new-evidence-in-its-favor/?utm_term=.4cc0c4f0b562 A building boom and climate change create an even hotter, drier Phoenix. This sprawling metropolis morphed in a matter of decades from a scorching desert outpost into one of the largest cities in the nation. Today, Phoenix is a horizon of asphalt, air conditioning and historic indifference to the pitfalls of putting 1.5 million people in a place that gets just 8 inches of rain a year and where the temperature routinely exceeds 100 degrees. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-phoenix-climate-adapt-20170327-story.html Long Beach students search for drought, climate change fixes. About 300 students at a Long Beach high school are exploring ways to make their community environmentally sustainable and preparing to share what they learned at a youth summit later this month. On their own, students ranging from freshmen to seniors at Cabrillo High School approached teachers a while back about… http://www.presstelegram.com/environment-and-nature/20170326/long-beach-students-search-for-drought-climate-change-fixes Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet stream. Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain — extreme weather events are occurring more and more often, but now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many extreme weather events and the impact climate change is having on the jet stream. https://yubanet.com/scitech/extreme-weather-events-linked-to-climate-change-impact-on-the-jet-stream/ PBS is the only network reporting on climate change. Trump wants to cut it. During a record-breaking hot presidential election year, American news networks failed to report on climate change. Media Matters for America has published its annual review of American evening newscast climate coverage for 2016, and the results are stunning: In 2016, evening newscasts and Sunday shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/27/pbs-is-the-only-network-reporting-on-climate-change-trump-wants-to-cut-it Brown, Inslee vow to fight Trump on climate rollback. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee say the West Coast is allied to fight any attempt by President Donald Trump to undo progress on climate change. Brown joined with Inslee at a news conference Saturday in Seattle, where the governors said they’ll be just as defiant on climate change and the environment as… http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2017/03/27/brown-inslee-vow-to-fight-trump-on-climate.html 100-year-old frost maps show how climate change has shifted the growing season in America. Published in a 1936 Atlas of American Agriculture, put together by the United States Department of Agriculture, these 1916 maps of the average dates of first killing frosts in fall and last killing frosts in spring were initially intended to help farmers plan their planting schedules. Now, the maps offer a rough gauge showing how much these dates have shifted over a century. http://www.businessinsider.com/100-year-old-frost-maps-show-how-climate-change-has-shifted-the-growing-season-in-america-2017-3 Climate change: ‘human fingerprint’ found on global extreme weather. Global warming makes temperature patterns that cause heatwaves, droughts and floods across Europe, North America and Asia more likely, scientists find. The fingerprint of human-caused climate change has been found on heatwaves, droughts and floods across the world, according to scientists. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/27/climate-change-human-fingerprint-found-on-global-extreme-weather Shrinking Arctic sea ice threatens the majestic Beluga whale. The Arctic sea ice hosts algae, which sustain a food chain up to the beluga whale. But the ice is decreasing – and in summers, it may be gone entirely by 2050. The beluga whale is one of the most extraordinary species of marine creature known to science. It is a gregarious, pure white Arctic dweller that emits strange, high-pitched twitters that… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/26/shrinking-sea-ice-threatens-beluga-whale-robin-mckie CARB approves California’s SLCP reduction strategy. The ARB’s approval of a plan to curb harmful super pollutants brings California closer to achieving its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. In another demonstration of its leadership on climate issues in the United States, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) today approved a plan to curb short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs)… http://hydrocarbons21.com/articles/7534/arb_approves_californiaandrsquo_s_slcp_reduction_strategy Shifting political winds put geoengineering in a tight spot. The rise of the Trump administration has forced researchers to swerve in their pursuit of tools to tweak the planet's thermostat. Now it's forcing some environmental groups to reluctantly court these controversial approaches, as well. "It's the elephant in the room for this meeting," said Ted Parson, a professor of environmental law at UCLA, speaking at a forum for U.S. solar geoengineering… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052109 'Get your popcorn ready.' Panel sets up climate fight. The House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing this week to challenge consensus climate science, which Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has called politicized and exaggerated. It is set to feature some of the field's most vocal critics and one of climate science's most controversial defenders… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052099 DROUGHT California Today: Talking to the ‘Water Czar’ About the Drought. By every wet indication, California is about to lift the drought state of emergency order imposed in January 2014. So we thought this would be a good time to talk to Felicia Marcus, the chairwoman of California’s Water Resources Control Board (you can call her the Water Czar.) This interview has been edited and condensed. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/us/california-today-talking-to-the-water-czar-about-the-drought.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ca_20170327&nl=california-today&nlid=79449713&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0 DIESEL ACTIVITIES Electric Trucks Start Arriving at Southern California Freight, Rail Yards. The State of California, San Bernardino Council of Governments, and partners at Daylight Transport and BYD Motors have announced the arrival of the first of 27 zero-emission electric yard and service trucks in three disadvantaged communities in Southern California. BYD is providing the 27 vehicles, of which 23 will be battery-electric Class 8… http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/fuel-smarts/news/story/2017/03/first-of-27-electric-trucks-arrives-at-southern-california-freight-rail-yards.aspx FUELS Canada determined to diversify despite Keystone XL approval. Canada's natural resource minister said Saturday his government is happy the Keystone XL pipeline has finally been approved by the White House, but he noted that obstacles remain and said Canada remains determined to diversify its oil exports beyond the United States. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CN_CANADA_PIPELINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT President Trump will issue a new executive order on Tuesday to relax Obama-era regulations on fossil fuels. “It will bring back manufacturing jobs across the country, coal jobs across the country,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “Across the energy sector, we have so much opportunity.” The “Energy Independence Executive Order” is designed to relax regulations on power plants… http://nypost.com/2017/03/26/trump-to-sign-order-loosening-regulations-on-fossil-fuels/ New cars much less fuel efficient than manufacturers claim, research finds. Australian Automobile Association finds fuel use on average 25% higher than claimed on consumption label displayed on new cars. New cars are using vastly more fuel on the road than in laboratory tests, raising further questions about the veracity of car manufacturers’ claims in the wake of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/27/new-cars-far-less-fuel-efficient-than-manufacturers-claim-research-finds Oil and gas groups cheer valuation rule repeal. Oil and gas groups celebrated the Interior Department's move last week to strike down an Obama-era rule altering royalty calculations for fossil fuels produced on federal land. In a legal filing Thursday, Interior requested a stay on litigation related to the Office of Natural Resources Revenue rule and indicated that it is developing a rulemaking to repeal the regulation (Greenwire, March 24). http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052101 VEHICLES Even Germany’s Post Office Is Building an Electric Car. Why a no-frills postal van spells disruption for the auto and oil industries. This boxy, bare-bones van has no air conditioning or radio, no passenger seat and a top speed of less than 50 miles an hour. Yet the electric vehicle’s success has irked the likes of Volkswagen AG. When Deutsche Post AG couldn’t find a zero-emission delivery van that met its needs… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-24/even-germany-s-post-office-is-building-an-electric-car Tech Roundup: Why Regulation Benefits (Yes, Benefits) Electric Cars. A common piece of wisdom in business circles is that regulation is bad and stifles innovation. But that leaves us with the curious case of electric cars, as Farhad Manjoo writes. Electric cars are becoming less expensive and more reliable. The typical range they can drive on a single charge is extending, and charging stations are… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/technology/tech-roundup-regulation-benefits-yes-benefits-electric-cars.html?_r=0 GM, Buick to launch plug-ins, electric cars in China. General Motors Co. said Friday its Buick brand will soon launch its first extended-range electric vehicle, the Velite 5, in China. The Detroit automaker said it plans in the next two years to introduce plug-in hybrid gasoline electric vehicles and pure electric vehicles under the Buick brand in China. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2017/03/24/gm-buick-launch-plug-ins-electric-cars-china/99578414/ Renault Zoe electric-car owners can double their range by upgrading leased batteries. When the updated 2017 Renault Zoe was unveiled last fall at the Paris auto show, it became one of the few electric cars whose range effectively doubled over its model life. Launched in 2012 with a 22-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery, the five-door subcompact hatchback had an effective range of 60 to 90 miles. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1109564_renault-zoe-electric-car-owners-can-double-their-range-by-upgrading-leased-batteries State offering rebate on new electric vehicles. New program also expands number of charging stations statewide. New Yorkers looking to buy a new car now have a big reason to go electric. The Rebate Electric Vehicle program (REV) will provide up to $2,000 off the sticker price for state residents who buy an electric car from participating dealerships. http://legislativegazette.com/archives/4899 VW RECALL Environmental officials praise engineers to uncovered Volkswagen emissions fraud. The California Environmental Protection Agency's Air Resources Board, convening in Riverside, paused from hearings Friday morning to honor engineers on staff who detected Volkswagen's attempts to hide excess emissions from its diesel vehicles through a "defeat device." http://www.pe.com/articles/environmental-828243-air-protection.html Could Trump's EPA reopen the VW settlement? States are preparing for a multibillion-dollar influx from a Volkswagen settlement despite new worries that U.S. EPA could rethink the deal. The settlement, approved by a federal judge in October, requires Volkswagen to invest $2 billion in electric vehicle charging and provide $2.7 billion to states to cut nitrogen oxides (NOx) pollution from old diesel engines. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052108 GREEN ENERGY California is shattering solar records. This bill could take renewable energy to the next level. A month ago, California broke its all-time solar record, with nearly 8,800 megawatts of solar power flooding the state's main electric grid on a Friday afternoon. The record stood until the following Wednesday, when more than 9,000 megawatts of solar powered the Golden State… http://www.desertsun.com/story/tech/science/energy/2017/03/27/california-shattering-solar-records-bill-could-take-renewable-energy-next-level/99536342/ Sierra Club report touts clean power as job generator. The Sierra Club today responded to Trump administration plans to roll back fossil fuel regulations by saying that the "clean energy" industry employs more workers. A new report from the green group found that solar, wind, energy efficiency and battery storage employ 2.5 times more people than coal, oil and gas jobs… http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052137 MISCELLANEOUS L.A. County will consider tighter rules for carpool and toll lanes. In an effort to improve sluggish speeds on the region’s freeways, Los Angeles County transportation officials have agreed to examine whether to impose tolls on more carpool lanes and a higher passenger requirement for such lanes. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-carpool-lanes-20170324-story.html Trump Executive Order Practices Are Dismantling Decades Of Environmental. The executive order is a quick and effective tool for President Donald Trump as he begins rewriting the 2015 regulation that “limits greenhouse-gas emissions from existing electric utilities” and he orders “the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to lift a moratorium on federal coal leasing.” https://cleantechnica.com/2017/03/27/trump-executive-order-practices-dismantling-decades-environmental-protections/ OPINIONS Back California Over Trump on Car Emissions. Thanks to a peculiarity of U.S. law, California has special power to set car pollution standards that affect the whole country. And the whole country -- even the whole world -- has benefited as, over decades, the state has pushed automakers to create ever-better pollution-limiting technology and ever-more fuel-efficient cars. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-27/back-california-over-trump-on-car-emissions Should Fuel Economy Standards Be Weakened? President Donald Trump announced this month that his administration plans to review fuel economy standards set by President Barack Obama's administration. The Obama administration's regulations would set the average fuel economy to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, but Trump's review makes a rollback a possibility. https://www.usnews.com/opinion/debate-club/articles/2017-03-27/is-weakening-fuel-economy-standards-a-good-idea What You Can Do About Climate Change. What can you — just one concerned person — do about global warming? It may feel like a more urgent problem these days, with proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and each year warmer than the previous one. You could drive a few miles fewer a year. Reduce your speed. Turn down your thermostat in winter. Replace your incandescent light bulbs with LEDs. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/opinion/sunday/what-you-can-do-about-climate-change.html?_r=0 Keystone Pipeline and other Trump energy policies could help swamp Mar-a-Lago. President Trump’s State Department early Friday signed off on a permit to allow the Keystone XL Pipeline project to cross the border from Canada, a permit the Obama administration had rejected as contrary to the national interest. But Trump is less concerned with the nation’s best interests than he is in the interests… http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-trump-global-warming-mar-a-lago-20170324-story.html 'No sign of mountains': What it was like in L.A. before today's clean-air rules. To the editor: In 1971, my 2-year-old son and I moved to Los Angeles from Boston. As we descended into LAX, the clouds were dirty, an ominous shade of brown. I wondered why the San Fernando Valley was called a valley; there was no sign of mountains when I drove to work through the canyons to Van Nuys. (“Will Trump erect a roadblock to Southern California's decades-long fight against smog?,” March 17) http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-clean-air-smog-los-angeles-20170324-story.html Don't reopen Aliso Canyon until we know what caused the worst methane leak in history. In the wake of the Aliso Canyon methane leak — the largest such leak in U.S. history, which temporarily displaced 8,000 families from their homes — what’s wrong with using some common-sense caution before reopening the natural gas storage facility? http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-aliso-canyon-close-20170323-story.html How refineries' greed sank an environmental program that was saving them millions. Just over a year ago, Southern California’s refinery industry was riding high. With a last-minute blitz in December 2015, the refineries had torpedoed a tough anti-pollution plan that had been painstakingly developed by regional environmental officials over the previous 37 months. The industry plan that was approved instead continued a cap-and-trade program… http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-refineries-reclaim-20170326-story.html Community Voices: Water allotments still disrespect farmers. Two-thirds of California’s total rainfall occurs in Northern California and two-thirds of California’s population lives south of the Delta. In California, we have two water projects that the Central Valley and Southern California depend on for their surface water deliveries: the Central Valley Project (a federal project) and the State Water Project. http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/community-voices-water-allotments-still-disrespect-farmers/article_5b9e0af9-bf79-5916-b1f8-7f8ba7b36913.html Paris climate change agreement is a 'bad deal', says pro-fossil fuels EPA chief Scott Pruitt. Barack Obama had hoped ratification of the historic international agreement would one day be viewed as 'the moment that we finally decided to save our planet'. The historic Paris Agreement on climate change – hailed by Barack Obama as perhaps “the moment that we finally decided to save our planet” – is “a bad deal”… http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/paris-agreement-scott-pruitt-climate-change-bad-deal-fossil-fuels-global-warming-a7651856.html Commentary: running fast to stand still. Even by their tumultuous standards, oil markets have had an exciting two years. Prices collapsed to unimaginably low levels following a half-decade of high and seemingly predictable prices, then recovered sharply. Capex programs were cut, costs went into free-fall, and efficiency ruled the day. The political environment was quite volatile as well with major producers like… http://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2017/march/commentary-running-fast-to-stand-still-.html Can Trump’s Proposal Save The Coal Industry? Climate change may not be a significant factor in the decision-making processes of the United States government, according to the White House. As per a directive signed by President Donald Trump, decisions concerning anything from appliance standards to pipeline approvals will be made without considering climate change as largely as has been done in the past. http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Can-Trumps-Proposal-Save-The-Coal-Industry.html Fuel Economy Rules: Someone is Listening. The recent announcement that the Trump Administration was taking another look at Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards was a welcome reality check for what is a complex and multi-layered issue. There was an immediate knee jerk reaction that this will send us back to the days of muscle cars and wanton pollution when in truth it may be one of the most positive… http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2017/03/27/fuel-economy-rules-someone-is-listening/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.