California Air Resources Board

Summary 

This bill creates the Climate Cashback Program to be administered by the Franchise Tax Board for the public purpose of mitigating the costs of transitioning to a low-carbon economy. The bill requires the Franchise Tax Board to develop and implement the program by December 31, 2024, to deliver quarterly per capita cashback payments to all California residents and sets other requirements for the operation of the program. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Requires CARB to initiate a regulatory process, consistent with statutory requirements for the Cap-and-Trade program, to evaluate potential updates to the market-based compliance mechanism, and regulatory changes shall take effect no later than January 1, 2025. The bill specifies the topics the evaluation shall focus on relating to allowance supply and recommendations by the IEMAC and EJAC. The bill requires CARB, beginning January 1, 2028, in consultation with the IEMAC and EJAC, on a triennial basis to conduct an evaluation of the Cap-and-Trade program focusing on the topics specified in the evaluation. The bill requires the Chair of CARB to appear before the JLCCCP to present the results of the evaluation and any proposed revisions to the Cap-and-Trade regulation and authorizes CARB to revise those regulations afterward to more effectively meet the goals of SB 32 and the most recent Scoping Plan.  Moved to the inactive file.

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Requires the owner or operator of a wastewater treatment facility, on or before January 1, 2027, to install, operate, and maintain a fence-line monitoring system that is approved by the appropriate air quality management district. The bill requires that the wastewater treatment-related fence-line monitoring system include equipment capable of measuring pollutants of concern, including hydrogen sulfide, emitted to the atmosphere from wastewater treatment processes.

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Would have required CARB, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to develop a program to provide financial assistance through a payment card to low-income and disadvantaged community members to use electric vehicle charging stations. This bill would have also required a recipient of State funding for deploying a publicly available electric vehicle charging station to agree, as a condition of receiving the funding, to operate the station in compliance with reliability standards that would be developed by the California Energy Commission. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required CARB, in consultation with the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee, on a triennial basis to conduct an evaluation of the Cap-and-Trade program to determine its effectiveness in achieving greenhouse gas reduction goals. The bill would have required CARB to adopt public banking metrics that track the number of unused compliance instruments in public and private accounts on an annual basis. The bill would have required the Chair of CARB to appear before the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies to present the results of the evaluation and any proposed revisions to the Cap-and-Trade regulation and would have authorized CARB to revise those regulations afterward to more effectively meet the goals of SB 32 and the most recent Scoping Plan. Failed passage on the Assembly Floor. 

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Would have established the policy of the State to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045. The bill would have required CARB to ensure that by 2045, Statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 90 percent below 1990 levels. The bill would have required CARB to work with relevant State agencies to ensure the Scoping Plan updates contain measures to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions, and to establish criteria for the use of natural-based climate solutions and carbon dioxide removal technologies. The bill would also have required CARB to identify interim 5-year GHG reduction goals beginning in 2025, and report to the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies on progress. Moved to the Senate Inactive File.

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Establishes the policy of the State to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, but no later than 2045 and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter, and to ensure that by 2045 Statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced at least 85 percent below 1990 levels. The bill requires CARB to ensure that the Scoping Plan identifies and recommends measures to achieve carbon neutrality, and to identify and implement policies and strategies that enable carbon dioxide removal and carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies to complement these emission reductions. 

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Spot bill related to the Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants. Failed to make it off of the Assembly Desk.

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Would establish, until January 1, 2028, a Just Transition Advisory Commission in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and requires the commission, through a public process, to develop and adopt a Transition Plan that contains recommendations to transition the state’s economy to a climate-resilient and low-carbon economy that maximizes the benefits of climate actions while minimizing burdens to workers, especially workers in the fossil fuel industry, and their communities, especially those that face disproportionate burdens from pollution. Held on suspense in the Assembly Committee on Appropriations.

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Would establish the policy of the State to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 90 percent below the Statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit by 2045. The bill also would set limitations on the use of direct air capture climate solutions. Moved to the Senate Inactive File.

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