The proposed “Clean” Fuel Standard (CFS) is a false solution to our fight for clean air.
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New Yorkers experience dramatically different air quality depending on where they live. Some New Yorkers are breathing in dirty air and dying from it. Polluting infrastructure, land use policies, and discriminatory decisions are causing air pollution that contributes to the detrimental health and environmental crisis that disproportionately affects low-income communities of color.
The “Clean Fuel Standard” should not be mistaken for a tool to advance New York State climate action and decrease emissions in environmental justice communities. Co-pollutant emissions from vehicles lead to harmful health impacts, such as cardiorespiratory diseases in communities of color that are disproportionately burdened by air pollution. Studies have shown that blending biofuels actually could increase co-pollutant emissions.
The current proposed CFS bill also includes a toothless directive to meet the existing NYS legal requirement that 40% of clean energy benefits and investments be directed to disadvantaged communities. Troublingly, the lower carbon fuel standard would create a market that allows big businesses, who are directly responsible for the pollution, to choose how and where to invest in solutions.
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