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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Requires CARB, in consultation with the California Energy Commission (CEC), before adopting or amending a regulation that imposes costs on gasoline refiners, distributors, or retailers, to make public, including on its website an estimate of the impact on retail gasoline prices. The bill requires this estimate to include a maximum estimated impact on retail gasoline prices that assumes the maximum possible cost to refiners, distributors, or retailers, and that all costs are passed on to consumers. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Prohibits CARB from adopting any standard, regulation, or rule, that affects the Low Carbon Fuel Standard or the Cap-and-Trade program, until the Legislative Analyst has analyzed the cost to the consumer from the impact on the price per gallon of fuel or price per kilowatt house of electricity of the proposed standard, regulation, or rule and submitted its analysis to the Legislature. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Requires California Energy Commission CEC and the California Public Utilities Commission CPUC to post, and update monthly, dashboards on their websites that includes the difference in average gasoline prices and the average total price of electricity or natural gas prices in California compared to national averages, and any California-specific taxes, fees, regulations, and policies that directly or indirectly contribute to those prices. If the average price of gasoline, electricity, or natural gas exceeds 10% of the natural average, the bill requires for 6 months: taxes and fees on gasoline to be suspended; fees on electricity and natural gas to be suspended; and require CARB to suspend the requirements of the Cap-and-Trade program for an oil refinery, electrical corporation, or gas corporation. The bill requires the CEC to develop a rebate methodology to compensate Californians for the higher cost of gasoline, electricity, and natural gas and for the Controller to provide rebates, funded by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Was not heard in the Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee.

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Voids specified amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard that were adopted in November 2024. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Would have authorized a project to satisfy the CEQA mitigation requirements for transportation impacts by contributing an amount of money per vehicle mile traveled, as determined by the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI), to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for the purposes of the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program. The bill would have required LCI, on or before July 1, 2029, and at least once every 3 years thereafter, to update the price per vehicle mile traveled based on specified factors. The bill also would have required, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the contributions to be available to the department to fund developments located in the same region with preference given to specified projects. Was not heard in the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee.

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Allows any coastal development permit for the Port of Los Angeles Zero Emissions Port Electrification and Operations project (ZEPEO), or "associated project required for completion of ZEPEO," within the boundaries of the Los Angeles Harbor District, to be reviewed only by the Los Angeles Harbor Department and not be reviewed by any of the other jurisdictions that ordinarily review the permit application. The bill prohibits the "project" from deploying, purchasing, or installing any fully automated cargo handling equipment or infrastructure supporting the charging or fueling of this equipment. Additionally, State agencies that receive a permit application for the "project" are required to review and rule on the permit within 90 days of application submission. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Requires the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) board to update Rule 1157 to improve air quality and increase data collection. The bill requires permanent and temporary aggregate operations, by January 1, 2027, to install and maintain a fenceline monitoring system, maintain fencing above the height of open piles, limit open storage piles to 8 feet tall if the covered facility is within 500 feet of a sensitive receptor, and cease all activities if PM10 emissions reach threshold limit set by SCAQMD. The bill requires, on and after July 1, 2027, that a covered facility with a demonstrated history of PM10 emissions at or above the threshold limit set by the SCAQMD and whose property line is within 500 feet of a sensitive receptor to fully enclose any existing open storage piles. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Authorizes up to 35 projects per year that are exclusively for noncommercial wildfire fuels reduction in timberland, less than 1,500 acres in size, and paid for in part or in whole with public funds, to prepare a timber harvesting plan as an alternative to complying with CEQA. The provision expires on January 1, 2031. Was not heard in the Senate Committee of Natural Resources and Water Committee.

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Requires CARB to designate public fire protection agencies or other equivalent agencies to oversee controlled burning activities and to exempt wildland vegetation management burning, as defined, from permitting requirements if conducted by or under the supervision of a public fire protection agency or other equivalent agency designated by CARB. The bill also requires CARB to develop guidelines and best practices for wildland vegetation management burning to ensure public safety and environmental protection. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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