Truckers fight emission initiative - Calgary Herald

Truckers fight emission initiative - Calgary Herald

Carbon - Trade associations for the oil, chemical and trucking industries filed suit in federal court in Fresno, Calif., on Tuesday to void the state's first-in-the-U.S. 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 United States' largest transportation market by 10 per cent, 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."