California Air Resources Board

Vests CARB with jurisdiction over a fashion seller’s environmental due diligence pertaining to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and provides similar jurisdiction for Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) but with regard to prohibited regulated chemicals. The bill requires a fashion seller, in carrying out its effective environmental due diligence, to comply with certain environmental guidelines that require it to embed responsible business conduct in its policies and management systems, identify areas of significant risks of societal and ecological harms from its own activities and its supply chain relationships, identify, prioritize, and assess the significant potential and actual adverse impacts of those risks, and cease, prevent, or mitigate those risks. The bill requires a fashion seller, beginning July 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, to submit to the DTSC and CARB an Environmental Due Diligence Report pertaining to the effective environmental due diligence performed by the fashion seller, as well as GHG emission information. The bill requires a fashion seller, in carrying out its environmental due diligence, to establish a quantitative baseline for their GHG emissions and reduction targets in the near-term and long-term covering their scopes 1, 2, and 3 emissions. Made a 2-year bill in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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