California Air Resources Board

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Would have required the establishment a State natural carbon sequestration goal in California of at least 60,000,000 MTCO2e annually by 2030, and 75,000,000 MTCO2e annually by 2035 and would have also required on December 31, 2025, and every year thereafter, CNRA and CARB to submit a progress report to the Legislature. Held on suspense in Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have imposed specified existing public school prohibitions and requirements, which are related to environmental conditions that must be considered before selecting a school site, on the selection of private and charter school sites. Held on suspense in Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have prohibited, notwithstanding any other law, State funds or personnel time from being used to fund or permit freeway widening projects in areas with high rates of pollution and poverty. Failed passage in the Senate Transportation Committee.

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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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Would have required, for projects in a disadvantaged community, that air quality mitigation measures identified in an environmental impact report or mitigated negative declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) mitigate air quality impacts directly in the disadvantaged community. Was not heard in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

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Would require air districts that have a nonattainment area for one or more air pollutants to adopt an expedited schedule for the implementation of best available control technology, expands best available control retrofit technology (BARCT) requirements in those air districts to other industrial sources beside those that participate in CARB’s Cap-and Trade program, and prohibits industrial sources that fail to implement BARCT by December 31, 2023 from participating in the Cap and Trade program. Was not heard in the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources.

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Would have required CARB, in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, to conduct a comprehensive health analysis as part of the Scoping Plan and integrate the analysis into the Scoping Plan. The bill would have specified the components of the health analysis, including specific factors impacting health, an analysis of health impacts of outcomes associated with the Scoping Plan, and quantitative assessment of nontrivial health impacts. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have prohibited a local air district that contains a Community Air Protection Program per AB 617 (C. García, Chapter 136, Statutes of 2017) from authorizing a new major source of emissions, or revisions to an existing source of emissions, that would have increased toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants above the levels included in the Community Emissions Reduction Program for that community, unless the local air district required the major source to mitigate the increased emissions directly in the affected communities.  Hearing canceled in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee at author’s request.

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Would have required CARB to publish emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria air pollutants, and toxic air contaminants from catastrophic wildfires on its website.  The bill also would have required CARB to include emissions from catastrophic wildfires in its air pollution inventory.  Additionally, the bill would have indefinitely defined “district” to mean an air pollution control or an air quality management district under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.  Was not heard in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

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