Clean Cars

For nearly ten years, the Attorney General, together with the California Air Resources Board (CARB), has fought hard to ensure that California is able to enforce its own "clean car" standards and that the federal government does its job to require increased fuel efficiency.

Cleaner cars and fuels give consumers more options in the marketplace and at the pump, help to reduce smog and its related health impacts, and cut down on greenhouse gas pollution that leads to climate change.

The Attorney General's "clean car" work includes defending California’s greenhouse gas (GHG) standards for motor vehicle emissions AB 1493, commonly known as the "Pavley" law and its low carbon fuel standards, and fighting for better federal fuel efficiency standards.