California Air Resources Board

Requires CARB to include greenhouse gas emissions from wildlands and forest fires in the AB 32 Scoping Plan. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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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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Establishes a unit within the Legislative Counsel Bureau to provide advice and investigation services related to climate change policies and allocates Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) moneys to specified funds and continuously appropriates certain amount of moneys in the fund for certain purposes. This bill also requires CARB to conduct a study and report to the Legislature evaluating and making recommendations on the use of offsets no later than December 31, 2026 and by January 1, 2029, update all existing compliance offset protocols to reflect the best available science. This bill also requires CARB to evaluate all compliance offset protocols and consider whether updates are necessary by January 1, 2034, and every 5 years thereafter.

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Authorizes transportation fuel blends of up to 15% ethanol (E15) until the California Environmental Policy Council completes its review of those blends and CARB either adopts a regulation establishing a specification for those blends or posts an assessment on its website demonstrating that it is not possible for a regulation for those blends to meet specified requirements. The bill contains an urgency clause.

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Summary

Would have authorized a State agency to enter into forward contracts to purchase low-carbon cement or concrete products up to 10 years in advance to facilitate the commercialization of these products. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have dedicated all revenue from the sale of any greenhouse gas allowances allocated to a natural gas investor-owned utility (IOU) directly to the IOU’s residential customers. Specifically, this bill would have required the California Public Utilities Commission annually to direct each natural gas IOU to distribute the California Climate Credit to residential customers of the gas IOU. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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