California Air Resources Board

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Creates a ministerial, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)-exempt, time-limited approval process for multifamily housing developments on commercially zoned property, if projects pay prevailing wages to construction workers and meet specified affordable housing targets.

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Requires the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA), by January 1, 2024, in collaboration with CARB, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), and an expert advisory committee, to set targets for natural carbon sequestration and nature-based climate solutions for 2030, 2038, and 2045, which must be integrated into the Scoping Plan and other State policies. CARB must ensure that double counting of emissions reductions is avoided and emissions reduction projects and actions that receive State funding will not be eligible to generate credits under any market-based compliance mechanism. CARB, by January 1, 2025, must develop standard methods for State agencies to track GHG emissions and reductions, carbon sequestration, and, where feasible, additional benefits from natural and working lands over time. CNRA, by January 1, 2025, in collaboration with CARB, CalEPA, and CDFA, must review and update the Climate Smart Strategy to achieve the targets and post data on its website on progress made toward targets, including on State expenditures made to implement the targets.

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Requires air districts with a population over 1,000,000 to post all criteria pollution and toxic air contaminant permits on their websites, requires air districts’ annual AB 617  (Cristina García, Chapter 136, Statutes of 2017) report to describe how existing Community Emissions Reduction Programs (CERP) have been updated to align with the most current AB 617 Blueprint, allows an extra year for CERP development if air districts, CARB, and  majority of the persons who are designated by the district to participate in the development and adoption of the CERP agree to the extension, and codifies in statute that the Blueprint is the name of the AB 617 statewide strategy.

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Adds the impacts of climate change as a factor that a regional council of governments may consider in developing their methodology that allocates regional housing needs, as specified.

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Declares that a climate emergency threatens the state, nation, the planet, the natural world, and all of humanity. 

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Requires operators of refineries in the state that produce gasoline meeting California specifications, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, to submit a report to the California Energy Commission containing certain information, including the difference between the cost per barrel of oil and the price of gasoline sold by the refinery. The bill requires the California Energy Commission to post that data online, in aggregate, within 45 days of the end of each calendar month.

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Expands the list of projects that may be included on the Climate Resiliency Project Registry to include whole orchard recycling projects.

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Prohibits the injection of a concentrated carbon dioxide fluid produced by a carbon dioxide capture project or carbon dioxide capture and sequestration project into a Class II well for the purposes of enhanced oil recovery.

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Requires the Department of General Services (DGS), in consultation with CARB, by July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter to publish a greenhouse gas inventory of State agencies for the prior calendar year. The bill also requires DGS to develop and publish a plan of required actions and investments for achieving net zero State agency emissions by 2035 and beginning 2028 and biennially thereafter, publish an updated plan including actions and investments. The bill requires DGS to ensure the required actions and investments are incorporated into the sustainability roadmaps of all State agencies. Finally, the bill requires DGS to report to the Legislature on progress beginning December 31, 2027, and biennially thereafter, and makes agency actions contingent upon appropriation by the Legislature.

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Requires CARB to create and maintain on its website a greenhouse gas emissions dashboard that provides the public updated information regarding how the State is progressing toward achieving its climate goals.

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