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Valley Air District’s Emissions Bank Likely To Change Following Damaging State Review

Later this month, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is set to release a report detailing how well its clean air programs are meeting federal requirements for reducing emissions. It’s called an equivalency demonstration, and it’s released annually every November. This year’s equivalency demonstration, however, will be a little different, because it will likely contain significant changes to a program that helps businesses offset their air emissions. The changes come in response to a state review published this past summer that suggested the Valley air district had over-estimated and even miscalculated credits it had granted to businesses for reducing their emissions . “The issues identified in this report are substantial and complex, potentially impacting a wide array of stakeholders in the San Joaquin Valley,” the review by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) reads, including not only the businesses that rely on those credits to expand their operations, but
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