As of 2024 California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (“SCAQMD”) officially required an initial site report and annual report for all warehouses greater than 100,000 square feet under its Warehouse Actions and...more
A district court has ruled that federal law does not preempt an indirect source rule that targets emissions associated with warehouses in Southern California. On December 14, 2023, a US federal judge rejected claims that...more
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (“SCAQMD”) is pursuing a new rule to regulate distribution warehouses. The SCAQMD’s focus is not on emissions generated by the warehouses or their equipment. Rather, its focus...more
The early days of the Biden Administration have given commercial users and providers of transportation and logistics services a lot to consider. In the first week of his presidency alone, President Biden signed 22 executive...more
As industrial facilities go, distribution warehouses are clean, non-polluting operations. They generally do not operate industrial furnaces, boilers, compressors, pumps, tanks or other major stationary sources of air...more
A local air district is developing a rule that would require both existing and proposed warehouses to reduce trucking emissions or pay a mitigation fee. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD or District)...more