California Air Resources Board

Summary

Would have required CARB, if it proposed a regulation to regulate an on-road mobile source, to prepare a lifecycle analysis, as defined, of any technology required by the regulation. The scope of environmental impacts in the lifecycle analysis would have been required to include, but would not have been limited to, the assessment from raw material extraction and processing, through the product’s manufacture, distribution, and use, to the recycling or final disposal of the materials composing it. The assessments would have been required to include, but would not have been limited to, consideration of carbon dioxide emissions. Was not heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Requires CARB, if it proposes a regulation to regulate an on-road mobile source, to prepare a lifecycle analysis, as defined, of any technology required by the regulation. The scope of environmental impacts in the lifecycle analysis must include, but is not limited to, the assessment from raw material extraction and processing, through the product’s manufacture, distribution, and use, to the recycling or final disposal of the materials composing it. The assessments must include, but are not limited to, consideration of carbon dioxide emissions. Was not heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required each Sustainable Communities Strategy to identify areas within the region sufficient to house an eight-year projection of the emergency shelter needs for the region, as specified.  Was not heard in the Assembly Transportation or Natural Resources Committees.

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Would have required CARB to amend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations to consider the attainment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards under the federal Clean Air Act, consider specified climate goals, complement existing oxides of nitrogen reduction programs to ensure value‑added support to meet 2023 and 2031 federal nonattainment deadlines, and apply performance‑based metrics.  The bill failed passage in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Would have required CARB to ensure that all alternative fuels are treated equally with regards to the requirements for generating credits under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.  The bill also would have required the Legislative Analyst’s Office, beginning January 1, 2021, to report to the Legislature on an empirical analysis of moneys allocated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.  Was not heard in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

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Would have required CARB, by April 1, 2020, to develop a summary of E-85 distribution data from 2012 to 2017, as well as data on the number of flexible fuel vehicles registered in California in 2017 and 2018, and submit the summary to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA).  The bill also would have required CARB to develop policy recommendations to maximize the use of E-85 and consider adopting those policy recommendations no later than October 1, 2020.  The bill also would have authorized the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies to recommend that CARB provide support to local governments to maximize their use of flexible fuel vehicles and E-85 fuel.  The bill was amended to deal with warewashing machines.

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