California Air Resources Board

Would have created a rebuttable presumption to any suit or complaint brought under Section 17580.5 if the person's environmental marketing claim was based on the voluntary use of a carbon credit and was issued by a carbon crediting program approved by CARB or by the International Civil Aviation Organization. It also would have created a rebuttable presumption to any suit or complaint if the carbon crediting program met specified requirements, including adopting clean methodologies, defines and publicly discloses the level at which activities are allowed, establishes and publicly discloses procedures for carbon credit issuance and retirement, possesses specified mechanisms for tracking units, possesses specified requirements for verification, and program governance. Would have required CARB, within an unspecified number of days of January 1, 2028, to publish and maintain a list of carbon crediting programs that satisfy the bill's requirements. Finally, the bill would have set requirements for third-party credit validation and verification bodies for purposes of the bill and sunset January 1, 2032. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. 

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