With the stark animosity that has come to mark the split among its five members, the hardened majority at the California Public Utilities Commission Thursday rejected an outgoing commissioner's allegations that a state-conducted probe proved Sempra Energy's Southern California Gas Co. utility conspired to drive up wholesale natural gas prices at the Arizona border in the 2000-2001 western energy crisis.
Opponents clashed over the California Air Resources Board's Advanced Clean Fleets, a state proposal to ban gas-fueled truck sales and make large trucking firms convert to electric within two decades.
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Environmentalists and trucking industry groups sparred with clean air regulators this week over a contentious proposal to phase out California’s big rigs and other trucks with internal combustion engines, and force manufacturers to speed the mass production of electric trucks.