Association of Irritated Residents v. California Air Resources Board

On September 28, 2011, the California Supreme Court rejected the petition by plaintiffs to grant a temporary stay of CARB’s implementation of AB 32 pending the plaintiffs’ appeal of the June 2011 decision.  Thus the program may go into effect.

Environmental justice advocates filed a petition with the California Supreme Court seeking to prevent CARB from continuing to implement its GHG cap-and-trade program.  The petitioners are requesting that the court review an appellate court decision that allowed the program to proceed after a trial court injunction had blocked its implementation, and claim that the appellate court erred when it stayed enforcement of the injunction pending the state’s appeal of the trial court’s decision.