A coalition of environmental groups challenged California’s leading climate regulator Wednesday, alleging that a recent update to a leading climate program will create additional pollution in the state’s San Joaquin Valley. Their lawsuit filed in Fresno county superior court calls on the California Air Resources Board to “adequately disclose, analyze and mitigate the significant environmental impact” caused by amendments to Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). … Environmental laws “require CARB to acknowledge the obvious—that providing substantial financial benefits for the production of fuel derived from manure at factory farms incentivizes factory farm expansion,” environmentalists wrote in the complaint. But the agency “fails to adequately evaluate and mitigate their impacts, including increased local air pollution, impacts to groundwater, and climate change,” they determined. CARB’s environmental review, the petitioners concluded, “cannot support a meaningful process or informed decisions about the LCFS amendments.”