California Air Resources Board

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Would require CARB to appoint, on or before January 31, 2022, the State-Regional Collaborative for Climate, Equity, and Resilience, consisting of representatives of various entities. Would require the Collaborative to develop a quantitative tool for metropolitan planning organizations to use to evaluate a transportation plan’s consistency with long-range greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and recommend guidelines for metropolitan planning organizations to use when crafting long-range strategies that integrate state goals related to climate resilience and social equity. Would require CARB, on or before June 30, 2023, and in coordination with the California Transportation Commission (CTC) and the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), issue new guidelines on sustainable communities strategies based on the Collaborative’s work and requires these guidelines to be updated thereafter at least every 4 years. Would require CARB, in consultation with CTC and HCD, identify greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2050 that align with the Collaborative’s work. Was not heard in the Senate Transportation Committee.

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Would require CARB to adopt additional greenhouse gas targets for 2045 and 2050, and vehicle miles traveled targets for 2035, 2045, 2050, by 2024; would modify the timeline for Sustainable Community Strategies (SCS) development; and would require CARB to reject SCSs if they are not implementable based on specific evidentiary basis.  Would require local governments to collect data on housing, jobs, and transit infrastructure and report every two years to metropolitan planning organizations to demonstrate how SCS strategies are implemented, using the data described above. Was not heard in the Senate Transportation Committee.

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Would expand the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act, known as the AB 900 program, to include specified hospital projects and requires CARB to complete a greenhouse gas emission determination as one of the requirements needed to obtain the Governor’s certification, which grants the project expedited California Environmental Quality Act review. Was not heard in the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources.

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Would require CARB to establish a maximum global warming potential (GWP) for concrete for each project region and performance class, and update it every three years. The bill would require CARB to establish criteria to qualify a technology, method, or product to qualify as a breakthrough technology. The bill would require the Department of General Services to establish performance classes for concrete products, publish a maximum GWP developed by CARB for concrete in the State Contracting Manual, and establish other rules and guidelines regarding the disclosure of carbon dioxide equivalent associated with concrete bids submitted to State agency and university projects. The bill would require awarding authorities to eventually require all bids for concrete used in State agency and university projects to include a GWP, to disqualify bids with a GWP higher than the maximum for performance class and region, and apply bid price discounts for bids with a low GWP or utilizing a breakthrough technology. Was not heard in the Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee.

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Would make a nonsubstantive change to the existing requirement for methane emissions reduction goals to include specified targets to reduce the landfill disposal of organics. Remains in the Senate Rules Committee.

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Would have required CARB to consider developing and implementing a Green Hydrogen Credit Program and determine whether or not such a program would be effective in incentivizing green hydrogen production. The bill would have set requirements if CARB decides to develop the program and authorizes CARB to adopt a declining greenhouse gas allowance allocation schedule through December 31, 2030. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Requires CARB, by July 1, 2023, to develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce cement sector emissions to net zero no later than December 31, 2045, and implement the strategy upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill requires CARB to establish interim targets, and authorizes CARB to adjust the interim targets up or down, as specified. The bill requires CARB, in developing the strategy, to evaluate measures to reduce costs of implementing greenhouse gas reduction technologies for cement plants and take other actions, as specified.

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Would require CARB to ensure that Statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40 percent and up to 80 percent below the 1990 level by 2030. The bill would require the Natural Resources Agency, in coordination with CalEPA and CARB, and concurrent with the Scoping Plan, to develop a climate restoration plan that specifies carbon removal targets before 2035. Moved to the Senate Inactive File.

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Would have required CARB to include greenhouse gas emissions from wildlands and forest fires in the Scoping Plan. The bill failed passage in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

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Would have required CARB by January 1, 2023, to develop and adopt regulations requiring corporations with revenues in excess of $1 billion doing business in California to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. The bill also would have required CARB, by July 1, 2025 to prepare a report on the greenhouse gas emissions of reporting entities, including estimates of reductions needed to maintain global temperatures within 1.5 degrees Celsius, estimate of emissions based on California’s current climate programs, and recommendations for reporting entities to reduce their emissions. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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