CARB Defends Plan To Achieve Carbon Neutrality By 2045, Citing Costs

California air regulators are pushing back on criticism from academics and environmentalists who say the state’s sweeping draft regulatory plan to meet its 2030 greenhouse gas target and 2045 “carbon neutrality” goal does not go far enough, arguing that more ambitious goals would be too costly. “The modeling shows that [a more] ambitious target towards 2035 does result in some significant costs that will have significant economic impacts as we move forward,” Liane Randolph, chairwoman of the California Air Resources...