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Air Quality and Monitoring
Accurately measuring air quality is the foundation of California’s efforts to reduce air pollution. For more than 50 years California has maintained one of the most extensive air monitoring networks in the world, collecting data on a wide range of pollutants. The information we get from this network makes it possible to track our progress in cleaning the air, and identify the most effective actions needed to meet health-based air standards.
Cap-and-Trade
The Cap-and-Trade Program is a key element of California’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It complements other measures to ensure that California cost-effectively meets its goals for greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
To date, CARB has issued over 202 million Cap-and-Trade forest offset credits pursuant to the U.S. Forest Projects Protocol. Of that, 89.1 million credits were issued to tribal entities and Alaska Native Corporations for improved forest management.
Offset Project Listing Requirements for Native American Tribes
California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC)
CalEPA and its boards, departments, and office (BDOs) are committed to improving our communication and working relationships with California Native American Tribes. On August 17, 2010, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC) Charter was approved by CalEPA and Charter Tribes. The purpose of the CalEPA TAC is to educate CalEPA and its BDOs, including CARB, and advocate concerning the Tribal beliefs and perspectives of cultural resources protection, environmental protection, historical and current day Tribal lands stewardship of the environment, and develop strategies and action plans to address Tribal environmental issues. CARB participates in quarterly TAC meetings and prepares quarterly reports to TAC. The most-recent TAC meeting took place June 4-5, 2024, at the CalEPA headquarters in Sacramento.
Wildfires
Extreme fires are a growing threat to public health and safety, homes, air quality and climate goals, and our forests. California is seeing fires that burn larger and hotter on average than ever before. One quarter of our state – more than 25 million acres – is now classified as under very high or extreme fire threat. More than 25 percent of the state’s population lives in these high fire-risk areas. Due to the historical forced relocation of tribes from their ancestral homelands to more rural and fire prone areas, Native Americans are six times more likely than other groups to be impacted by wildfires. However, smoke from extreme fires can occur with little warning and travel long distances negatively impacting public health and degrading quality of life.