AB 278, as introduced, Gatto. California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (the act), establishes the State Air Resources Board (state board) as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, to be achieved by 2020, equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990. The state board is additionally required to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
This bill would require the state board, in determining the carbon intensity of fuels under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations or another scoring system, to consider specified matters.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 38566 is added to the Health and Safety
2Code, to read:
(a) For purposes of this section, “Low Carbon Fuel
4Standard regulations” means those regulations adopted by the state
5board in Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Article
64 of Subchapter 10 of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 17 of the
7California Code of Regulations.
8(b) In determining the carbon intensity of fuels under the Low
9Carbon Fuel Standard regulations or another scoring system, the
10state board shall consider all of the following:
11(1) The life-cycle carbon intensity impacts of potential or actual
12deforestation.
13(2) The environmental laws and practices of the jurisdiction
14from which the fuel
originates.
15(3) Any disruptions or other effects upon food supply, food
16costs, and food shipping that could occur as a result of California
17policy.
18(4) Changes to the local economy, including job loss or worker
19displacement, resulting from changes in the production of a fuel.
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