The California Air Resources Board (CARB) was dragged into court by plaintiffs the Association of Irritated Residents, along with other environmental and community groups, who argued that it had chosen policies to implement California’s ambitious 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, and treated a legislatively mandated “Scoping Plan” “as a post hoc rationalization” of those policies, writes San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith in his decision.
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