(The Center Square) – California’s controversial expansion of its low-emission fuel standard, which the state said will increase fuel costs by $162 billion through 2046 and which experts say will add up to an extra $1.15 per gallon of gasoline this year, is on hold by the Office of Administrative Law.
In November, the California Air Resources Board, all but two of whose voting members are appointed by the governor, approved the Low Carbon Fuel Standard’s tightening of greenhouse gas emissions standards.
The standards use a system of credits and deficits to reward or punish producers that make fuel better or worse than the rising “clean” standard…