Legal Opinion
Bay Area Citizens v. Association of Bay Area Governments
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 30, 2016No. A143058PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
STEWART, J.
The primary issue raised by this appeal is whether the Bay Area agencies newly charged by state law with adopting a plan to reduce regional greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks over the coming decades should have relied on emissions reductions already expected from preexisting statewide mandates to fulfill their statutory obligation, rather than adopting regional strategies to reduce emissions beyond those already expected from the statewide mandates. We conclude, as did the trial court, that the relevant agencies correctly declined to count statewide…
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