Suit Attacks Greenhouse Gas Scoping Plan in Name of Social Justice
- Josh Stephens
- Jul 12, 2018
- 5 min read
A coalition of advocacy groups has filed a quixotic, aggressively worded lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board’s 2017 AB 32 Scoping Plan, claiming in part that its encouragement of VMT reductions and other strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will unduly restrict development of new housing and victimized poor and minority residents of California. The suit, if successful, could require dramatic revision of the Scoping Plan and, by extension, revision of regional greenhouse gas emissions targets, adopted in February (see accompanying CP&DR story).
