California Air Resources Board

Summary

Would have required CARB to develop a carbon offset credit for whole orchard recycling.  This bill would have also appropriated an unspecified sum from the General Fund to the California Department of Food and Agriculture to provide grants to the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Division and the California State University for research to assess the co-benefits from healthy soil practices.  Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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