California Air Resources Board

Requires, subject to available funding, air monitoring initiated in a community under the Community Air Protection Program to continue at least five years, requires CARB to update and formally approve the “monitoring plan” by July 1, 2026, and requires CARB, in consultation with air districts, to report on progress on the implementation of community air monitoring, as specified, by March 1, 2027, and annually thereafter to appropriate subcommittees of the budget committee of each house of the Legislature. The bill also states the existence of the Bureau of Environmental Justice within California’s Department of Justice.

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