California Air Resources Board

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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 authorize a public agency that issues a permit to an operator for mobility services, such as a transportation network company like Uber or Lyft, to require an operator to share data as specified and periodically submit to the public agency anonymized trip data, which would have interfered with CARB’s Clean Miles Standard regulation.  Held on suspense in the Assembly Committee on Appropriations.

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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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Contains statutory provisions necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2021. Related to CARB, establishes the Regional Early Action Planning Grants Program of 2021, to be developed and administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), in collaboration with the Office of Planning and Research (OPR), the Strategic Growth Council (SGC), and CARB to provide regions with funding, including grants. Eligible activities for transformative planning and implementation include, but are not limited to,  administering specified programs, providing jurisdictions and other local agencies with technical assistance, planning, temporary staffing, or consultant needs associated with updating local planning and zoning documents, accelerating infill development, planning and upgrading infrastructure, creating multimodal transportation communities, shifting travel behavior through reducing driving, and increasing transit ridership, each as specified. HCD, in collaboration with OPR, SGC and CARB shall review applications, and HCD shall award funds, as specified.

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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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