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Industries sue to void California's low-carbon fuel regulations
The suit by the oil and trucking industries alleges that the rules discriminate against corn ethanol and Canadian crude oil. A state official calls the suit ’shameful.’
Trade associations for the oil, chemical and trucking industries filed suit in federal court in Fresno on Tuesday to void California’s http:// first-in-the-nation low-carbon fuel initiative.
The regulations, which took effect last month, are aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline and diesel sold in the nation’s largest transportation market by 10%, and spurring the development of alternative fuels and technology.
But the lawsuit portrays the rules as discriminating “against transportation fuels and fuel feed stocks imported from outside of California with the intended effect of promoting in-state production of transportation fuels and keeping consumer dollars local . . . ”
Thus, it contends, the rules are an unconstitutional interference with interstate commerce.
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