David Brown

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted amendments to California’s Cap-and-Invest Program following the state legislature’s 2025 extension of the program through 2045. The amendments tighten the state’s emissions cap to align with California’s 2030 and 2045 climate targets. CARB is promoting the amendments as providing long-term regulatory certainty at a time of shifting federal climate and energy policy.

Greenhouse gas and chemical regulation is entering an era of sharper federal-state divergence. At the federal level, recent and proposed actions reflect a deregulatory approach to climate and chemical controls, including rescission of the endangerment finding framework for vehicle GHG standards, recalibration of EtO and methane rules, and reconsideration of several major regulatory programs.

Key Takeaways: In a short, unanimous decision delivered by Justice Barrett on May 14, the United States Supreme Court in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC et al. ruled that the FAAAA does not preempt state law negligent hiring claims against brokers who arrange interstate shipment of goods by motor carriers.