BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Senator Wieckowski, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular
Bill No: SB 1383
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|Author: |Lara |
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|Version: |8/31/2016 |Hearing |8/31/2016 |
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|Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |Yes |
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|Consultant:|Rebecca Newhouse |
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SUBJECT: Short-lived climate pollutants: methane emissions: organic
waste: landfills.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1) Existing law, under the California Global Warming Solutions Act
of 2006 requires the California Air Resources Control Board (ARB)
to determine the 1990 statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
level and approve a statewide GHG emissions limit that is
equivalent to that level, to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt
GHG emissions reductions measures by regulation (Health and
Safety Code §38500 et seq.).
2) Requires ARB to complete, by January 1, 2016, a comprehensive
strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants
(SLCPs) in the state.
3) Requires businesses that generate specified amounts of organic
waste to arrange for recycling services for that material. (PRC
§42649.81)
4) Requires California Energy Resources Development and Conservation
Commission (CEC) to hold public hearings to identify impediments
that limit procurement of biomethane in California, including,
but not limited to, impediments to interconnection, and requires
CEC to offer solutions to those impediments as part of the
integrated energy policy report. (PRC §25326)
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5) Requires the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to
adopt policies and programs that promote the in-state production
and distribution of biomethane. (PUC §399.24 )
This bill:
1)Requires ARB to approve and begin implementing the comprehensive
strategy to reduce SLCPs in the state to achieve, from 2013
levels, a 40% reduction in methane, a 40% reduction in
hydrofluorocarbon gases, and a 50% reduction in anthropogenic
black carbon, by 2030.
2)Requires ARB, prior to approving the strategy, to coordinate with
other state and local governments; hold at least three public
hearings; evaluate the best available scientific, technological,
and economic information to ensure the strategy is cost effective
and technologically feasible; and incorporate and prioritize, as
appropriate, measures and actions that provide cobenefits, as
specified.
3)Requires ARB to publicly notice the strategy and post a copy of
the strategy on their Internet Web site at least one month prior
to approval.
4)Establishes a target of 50% reduction in the statewide disposal of
organic waste from the 2014 level by 2020 and a 75% reduction by
2025, and requires CalRecycle and ARB to adopt regulations to
achieve the organic waste reduction targets.
5)Prohibits the above regulations from establishing numeric organic
waste disposal limits for individual landfills and authorizes the
regulations to:
a) Require local jurisdictions to impose requirements on
generators, as specified, and penalties for noncompliance.
b) Include different levels of requirements for local
jurisdictions and phased timelines for meeting 2020, and 2025
goals, as specified.
c) Include penalties for noncompliance, as specified.
6)Requires the above CalRecycle and ARB regulations to:
a) Take effect on or after January 1, 2022, as specified.
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b) Include requirements intended to recover at least 20% of
edible food currently disposed of, by 2025.
7)Authorizes a local jurisdiction to charge and collect fees to
recover costs incurred in complying with the organic waste
reduction targets.
8)Requires CalRecycle, in consultation with ARB, to analyze progress
in achieving the organic waste reduction goals, as specified.
9)Authorizes CalRecycle to include incentives or additional
requirements in the regulations to facilitate progress in meeting
the organic waste reduction goals if CalRecycle determines that
significant progress has not been made.
10) Prohibits ARB from adopting additional requirements to control
methane emissions from the disposal of organics before January 1,
2025, other than through landfill methane control.
11) Requires ARB, in consultation with the California Department of
Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to adopt regulations to reduce methane
emissions from livestock and dairy manure management operations by
up to 40% below 2013 levels by 2030.
12) Requires ARB, prior to adopting manure management regulations,
to do the following:
a) Work with stakeholders, as specified, to address challenges
and barriers to the development of dairy methane reduction
projects.
b) Hold a minimum of three public meetings, as specified.
c) Conduct or consider livestock and dairy operation research
on dairy methane reduction projects and consider developing and
adopting methane reduction protocols.
13)Requires ARB post a report on their Internet Web site on the
progress in meeting with stakeholders, holding public meetings,
conducting research, and developing protocols, as required above.
14) Specifies that the regulations shall be implemented on or after
January 1, 2024, if ARB, in consultation with CDFA, determines
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that the regulations are technologically feasible, economically
feasible, as specified, and cost effective and that they include
provisions to minimize and mitigate potential leakage, and
evaluate achievements made by incentives.
15) Requires ARB, in consultation with CDFA, to analyze progress by
July 1, 2020, toward achieving the methane reduction targets for
the dairy and livestock sector, and authorizes ARB, in
consultation with CDFA and stakeholders to reduce the methane
reduction goal for the dairy and livestock sector if it is
determined that progress has not been made in meeting targets due
to insufficient funding, or technical or market barriers.
16) Requires ARB, in consultation with PUC and CEC, to establish
energy infrastructure development and procurement policies to
encourage dairy biomethane projects to meet the methane reduction
goals for that sector, and requires PUC and CEC to direct gas
corporations to implement at least five dairy biomethane pilot
projects, as specified.
17) Requires ARB to provide guidance on credits generated pursuant
to the low carbon fuels standard, and cap-and-trade program, and
ensure that projects developed prior to implementation of adopted
regulations in the dairy and livestock sector receive credit for
at least 10 years, and be eligible for an extension of credits, as
specified.
18) Requires ARB to develop a pilot financial mechanism to reduce
economic uncertainty associated with the value of environmental
credits, including credits generated pursuant to the low carbon
fuels standard, and cap-and-trade program, and make
recommendations, as specified.
19) Specifies enteric emissions reductions may only be achieved
through incentive based mechanisms, until ARB, in consultation
with CDFA makes specified findings, but authorizes voluntary
enteric emissions reductions to be used toward meeting the methane
emission reduction goals for the livestock and dairy sector.
20) Specifies that the requirements in adopting dairy and livestock
regulations do not limit the authority of ARB to acquire planning
and baseline information.
21) Prohibits ARB from adopting methane emission reduction
regulations controlling methane emissions from dairy and livestock
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operation to achieve GHG emissions reductions other than those
required pursuant to this bill.
22) Requires CEC, in consultation with ARB and PUC, to develop
recommendations for the development and use of renewable gas as
part of the 2017 Integrated Energy Policy Report, as specified.
23) Requires state agencies to consider, and as appropriate, adopt
policies and incentives to significantly increase the sustainable
production and use of renewable gas, based on the above
recommendations, and requires PUC, in consultation with CEC and
ARB, to consider additional policies to support the development
and use of renewable gas in the state to reduce short-lived
climate pollutants, based on the above recommendations.
24) Requires priority for the consideration and adoption of policies
above, be given to fuels with the greatest GHG emissions benefits,
as specified.
Background
1) Short-lived Climate Pollutants. Greenhouse gases or climate
pollutants, such as CO2, work to warm the earth by trapping solar
radiation in the earth's atmosphere. Depending on the molecule,
these pollutants can vary greatly in their ability to trap heat,
which is termed their global warming potential, and the length of
time they remain in the atmosphere. CO2 remains in the
atmosphere for centuries, which makes it the most critical
greenhouse gas to reduce in order to limit long-term climate
change. However, climate pollutants including methane,
tropospheric ozone, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and soot (black
carbon), are relatively short-lived (anywhere from a few days to
a few decades), but when measured in terms of how they heat the
atmosphere (global warming potential, of GWP), can be tens,
hundreds, or even thousands of times greater than that of CO2.
These climate forcers are termed short-lived climate pollutants
(SLCPs).
Because SLCPs remain in the atmosphere for a relatively short
period of time, but have a much higher global warming potential
than CO2, efforts aimed at reducing their emissions in their near
term would result in more immediate climate, air quality, and
public health benefits, than a strategy focused solely on CO2.
According to ARB's SLCP draft strategy, "while the climate
impacts of CO2 reductions take decades or more to materialize,
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cutting emissions of SLCPs can immediately slow global warming
and reduce the impacts of climate change." Recent research
estimates that SCLPs are responsible for about 40% of global
warming to date and that actions to reduce SLCP emissions could
cut the amount of warming that would occur over the next few
decades by half.
According to ARB's 2015 updated Scoping Plan, the three
short-lived climate pollutants with the greatest implications for
California are the following:
Black carbon: Black carbon, a component of soot, also known as
PM 2.5, comes from diesel engines and incomplete burning of
carbon sources. Wildfires contribute almost 50% of the total
black carbon emissions in the state. Black carbon also darkens
the surface of snow and ice, which accelerates heat absorption
and melting, and is thought be the second greatest contributor to
global climate change, after CO2. In addition to being a
powerful global warming pollutant, black carbon is associated
with numerous negative health impacts and is designated a
potential human carcinogen. Black carbon is not listed under AB
32 as a greenhouse gas subject to AB 32 regulations. However,
due to known health and air quality impacts, ARB adopted truck
and bus regulations in 2008 to control diesel PM emissions. ARB
also administers the Carl Moyer Program, which provides grants to
fund "cleaner than required" engine upgrades, or retrofits that
reduce PM 2.5 and other pollutants. Black Carbon has a global
warming potential 3200 times that of CO2 on a 20-year time scale.
Methane: Methane (CH4) is the principal component of natural gas
and is also produced biologically from the decomposition of
organic matter under anaerobic conditions in ruminants (enteric
fermentation), landfills, and waste handling. Atmospheric
methane concentrations have been increasing as a result of human
activities related to agriculture, fossil fuel extraction and
distribution, and waste generation and processing. Many
emissions sources of methane are unregulated (e.g., methane from
dairy production and fugitive methane emissions from landfills
and natural gas distribution). In fact, a 2014 Stanford
University study found that methane emissions may be 50% higher
than official estimates from the US EPA. In 2010, ARB approved a
regulatory measure as an AB 32 discrete early action measure that
requires installation of landfill gas collection and control
systems. ARB has also released draft regulations to reduce
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fugitive methane from the oil and gas sector. Methane is about
80 times more powerful as a global warming pollutant than CO2 on
a 20-year time scale.
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFC): HFCs (also known as F-gases) are
synthetic gases used in refrigeration, air conditioning,
insulation foams, solvents, aerosol products, and fire
protection. They are primarily produced for use as substitutes
for ozone-depleting substances which are being phased out
globally. Currently, HFCs are a small fraction of the total
climate forcing, but they are the fastest growing source of
carbon pollution. ARB has implemented several measures to reduce
HFC emissions including low-global warming potential (GWP)
requirements for aerosol propellants, a deposit-return recycling
program for small cans of air conditioner refrigerant and a
refrigerant management program. HFCs, on average, have a global
warming potential 1600 times that of CO2 on a 20-year time scale.
2) Climate change, environmental quality, and public health. In
addition to increasing sea levels and dwindling biodiversity,
climate change will have significant impacts on environmental
quality and public health.
A number of impacts from climate change can lead to worsening air
quality. Longer, hotter days during the dry seasons result in
more ground-level pollutants like ozone. Additionally, dry
conditions from high temperatures and worsening drought lead to
longer fire seasons and increasing wildfire frequency and
intensity.
Climate change can also lead to more frequent and extreme
weather. This includes heavy rainfall events, which can trigger
landslides and debris flows that are especially problematic in
areas where wildfires have occurred. Heavy rain events can also
overwhelm sewage and water treatment facilities with negative
impacts to water quality. Additionally, drought is an important
consideration for water quality. Because of reduced water
reserves, groundwater pumping may continue to increase, resulting
in higher concentration of pollutants in drinking water.
High heat and drought can also facilitate the spread of West Nile
Virus (WNV) by aiding the development of mosquitoes, which spread
the virus to people, birds, and other animals. Last year in
California, the number of mosquitoes carrying WNV surged to
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unprecedented levels.
3) SLCP Strategy. SB 605 (Lara and Pavley, Chapter 523, Statutes of
2014) directs ARB to develop a comprehensive short-lived climate
pollutant strategy by January 1, 2016. In developing the
strategy, ARB is required to complete an inventory of sources and
emissions of SLCPs in the state based on available data, identify
research needs to address data gaps and existing and potential
new control measures to reduce emissions.
In September of 2015, ARB released a draft SLCP strategy required
by SB 605. The draft strategy sets targets for methane, black
carbon, and reductions in F-gases, of 40%, 50%, and 40%,
respectively, by 2030. Some of the proposed measures to achieve
black carbon emissions reductions include replacement of
wood-burning stoves, and implementing a sustainable freight
strategy. To meet the methane reduction target, the draft
strategy proposes manure and enteric management measures,
including regulations on new dairies, prohibiting organics in
landfills, oil and gas sector methane regulations, and others.
F-gases are targeted in the strategy through proposals to provide
financial incentives to low GWP refrigerants and bans on very
high GWP refrigerants and equipment.
Comments
1) Purpose of Bill. According to the author, "California has been a
proud and bold leader in pursuing environmental policies to
reduce climate change and address the sources that cause it.
Those policies have mostly focused on reducing emissions of CO2,
the most significant long-term driver of climate change. This
strategy represents the next step in those efforts, to establish
a goal to reduce short lived climate pollutants that are among
the most harmful emissions to both human health and global
climate change.
"There is an urgent need to develop a strategy to address and
reduce these deadly pollutants. Extensive research links
particulate pollution and increased ozone levels to severe and
chronic health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and
asthma. This impact is most profound in children. One in eleven
children in Los Angeles County suffers from asthma. For Black
children, the number is one in four.
"The impact of air pollution on children is not limited to just
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heart and lung problems. Asthma is now the leading medical cause
of absenteeism in LA schools, impacting children's learning and
development. Limited opportunities for physical activity due to
respiratory illness and poor air quality also contribute to an
epidemic of overweight and childhood diabetes that
disproportionally impacts Black and Latino communities.
"Although the problem is statewide, these challenges
disproportionally impact poor families and communities of color.
According to the 2015 State of the Air Report from the American
Lung Association, the top five most polluted cities in the United
States are all in California.
"A Southern California Children's Health study that examined the
long-term effects of particle pollution on teenagers found that
those who grew up in more polluted areas face the increased risk
of having underdeveloped lungs, which may never recover to their
full capacity. The average drop in lung function was 20 percent
below what was expected for the child's age, similar to the
impact of growing up in a home with parents who smoked.
"Reducing super pollutants in California will have an immediate
beneficial effect - dramatically reducing the serious impacts
these pollutants have on our air quality and on the health of our
children."
2) What measures will be implemented? SB 1383 directs ARB to
implement the SLCP strategy, required by January 1, 2016 pursuant
to SB 605 (Lara). ARB has not yet formally approved the SLCP
strategy, and it currently exists in draft form. The draft
outlines numerous actions that could be taken, and in some cases
are already underway, to address methane, black carbon, and
F-gases in the state to meet the 2030 targets. Some of the
proposals include:
Removal and replacement of old fireplaces and
woodstoves;
Implementing a sustainable freight strategy;
Regulations for best management practices for new
dairies;
Financial incentives for manure management and
dairy digesters;
Requiring organics diversion from landfills;
Regulations to reduce methane emissions from oil
and gas production, processing and storage;
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Financial incentives for low-GWP refrigeration
early adoption; and
Bans on the sale of very-high GWP refrigerants and
prohibitions on new equipment using high GWP gases.
The draft strategy has not yet been approved by the Board, and is
subject to review under CEQA. Additionally, SB 1383 includes
requirements for ARB to conduct public hearings and ensure the
strategy is cost effective and technologically feasible, as well
as incorporate measures that provide public health, job growth,
and technological innovation benefits, prior to approving the
strategy. Because of the additional actions and evaluations
needed, the approved strategy may change significantly, and it is
not clear to what extent all the measures and actions identified
in the draft strategy will be implemented as part of the approved
strategy pursuant to SB 1383 to meet the targets.
However, ARB does note in the report that any regulatory measures
developed pursuant to the SLCP Strategy would undergo a public
rulemaking process, including workshops, and economic and
environmental evaluations.
3) SB 1383 and existing organic waste goals. While the bill does
not set a specific methane reduction target for the waste sector,
it does set goals of reducing statewide disposal of organic waste
by 50% from 2014 levels by 2020 and 75% by 2030. The bill also
requires CalRecycle's regulations to achieve a reduction in
edible food currently disposed of by at least 20%. SB 1383
prohibits CalRecycle's regulations to meet these goals from
taking effect before January 1, 2022.
Existing law sets a statewide solid waste diversion goal of 75%
by 2020. Organic materials make up one-third of the waste stream
and food continues to be the greatest single item disposed,
comprising over 15% of materials landfilled. CalRecycle is also
charged with implementing its Strategic Directive 6.1, which
calls for reducing organic waste disposal by 50% by 2020.
According to CalRecycle, significant gains in organic waste
diversion are necessary to meet the 75% goal and implement
Strategic Directive 6.1. Additionally, AB 1826 (Chesbro, Chapter
727, Statutes of 2014) requires generators of significant
quantities of organic waste to ensure the material is recycled,
and lowers the organic thresholds for businesses subject to
recycling requirements if at least 50% of organic waste is not
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diverted by 2020.
SB 1383 goals and timelines for reducing organic waste are
consistent with CalRecycle's strategic directive, as well as
current statute mandating commercial recycling of organic waste.
4) Limits ARB's authority to reduce dairy and livestock methane
emissions. Currently, methane is defined as a GHG under AB 32,
and ARB has the authority to regulate methane emissions from all
sectors, including the agricultural and waste sectors, pursuant
to AB 32. Additionally, the Legislature recently passed SB 32
(Pavley), awaiting action by the Governor, which would grant ARB
the authority to reduce GHG emissions, including methane, by at
least 40% by 2030.
The dairy and livestock sector is not currently regulated under
AB 32, although over 50% of statewide methane emissions are due
to dairy and livestock operations. However, as noted, ARB's
recent SLCP strategy outlines several potential measures for this
sector, including regulations for best management practices for
new dairies and financial incentives for manure management and
dairy digesters, to contribute toward a statewide reduction in
methane emissions of 40% below 2013 levels by 2030.
Recent amendments to the bill would prevent implementation of
methane emissions reduction regulations for the dairy and
livestock sector before 2024. The amendments also limit the
dairy and livestock sector's reduction obligation to 40% below
2013 levels, even if additional reductions are feasible and
cost-effective relative to other sectors. The proposed
amendments also authorize ARB to reduce the goal for the dairy
and livestock sector if specified findings are made.
Additionally, ARB is prohibited from regulating emissions from
enteric fermentation until ARB, in consultation with CDFA,
determines that a cost-effective, considering the impact on
animal productivity, scientifically proven means of reducing
enteric emissions is available and that adoption of the enteric
emissions reduction method would not damage animal health, public
health, or consumer acceptance.
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By delaying implementation of regulations until 2024, capping the
dairy and livestock sector's methane reductions to 40%, and
requiring a number of specific findings prior to implementation,
these amendments limit ARB's existing authority under AB 32 and
ARB's authority to reduce methane emissions from the dairy and
livestock sector under SB 32 (Pavley), if that bill and its
companion measure, AB 197 (E. Garcia), are signed by the
Governor.
5) Dairy industry concerns. As noted above, recent amendments to
the bill lay out a number of provisions that limit the scope and
timing of the regulations ARB can adopt to control methane
emissions from the dairy and livestock industry.
In a March 23, 2016 letter from agricultural, dairy, and
livestock stakeholders regarding SB 1383, they argued that unlike
other entities regulated by ARB, the dairy industry cannot pass
costs through to customers who purchase milk, cheese, and other
dairy products, since milk prices are set by the state. The
letter also stated that, because the California dairy industry
produces low levels of enteric fermentation emissions, directly
regulating enteric emission from cows is unrealistic, and could
lead to greatly reducing the number of dairy cattle in the state,
or eliminating most pasture and organic dairies, or both. Recent
amendments limiting the scope and delaying the implementation of
manure management regulations remove the dairy and livestock
industry opposition to the bill.
6) Renewable gas policies. Recent amendments require CEC, in
consultation with ARB and PUC, to develop recommendations for the
development and use of renewable gas. The amendments also
require state agencies to consider, and adopt, as appropriate,
policies and incentives to significantly increase the sustainable
production and use of renewable gas, based on those
recommendations. By authorizing any state agency to adopt
policies based on recommendations made by other agencies, does
this bill sidestep the role of the Legislature in granting
authority and direction to state agencies?
7) Referral to the Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. SB 1383
was originally introduced by Senator Lara on February 2, 2016, to
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require ARB to approve and implement the comprehensive
short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve, from 2013
levels, a 40% reduction in methane, a 40% reduction in
hydrofluorocarbon gases, and a 50% reduction in anthropogenic
black carbon, by 2030. On August 30, 2016, Assembly amendments
added new sub-targets for organic waste, and for the dairy and
livestock sector, as well as a number of additional requirements
for ARB, and other agencies, in implementing regulations to
achieve the emissions reduction targets. The measure passed the
Assembly Floor on August 31, 2016, by a vote of 41-22.
Consistent with Senate Rule 29.10 the Senate Rules Committee has
referred the amended bill to the Senate Environmental Quality
Committee for a hearing of the Assembly amendments.
Related/Prior Legislation
SB 605 (Lara and Pavley, Chapter 523, Statutes of 2014) requires ARB
to develop a short-lived climate pollutant strategy by January 1,
2016.
The following support and opposition was verified by the author's
office on 8/31/2016:
SOURCE: Author
SUPPORT:
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environment
All Power Labs
American Academy of Pediatrics - California
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, California
American Heart Association, California
American Lung Association in California
Anaergia
Asthma Coalition of Los Angeles County
Atlas ReFuel
Audubon California
Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative
Baz Allergy, Asthma and Sinus Center, Central Valley and Bay Area
Bioenergy Association of California
Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation
Breathe California
California Association of Environmental Health Officers
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California Association of Sanitation Agencies
California Bicycle Coalition
California Black Health Network, Inc.
California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health
California Hydrogen Business Council
California League of Conservation Voters
California Medical Association
California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
Californians Against Waste
California Nurses Association
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
California Public Health Association - North
California Refuse Recycling Council
California Thoracic Society
California Walks
CalPIRG
Center for Climate Change and Health, Public Health Institute
Central California Asthma Collaborative
Clean Energy Renewables
Climate Resolve
Climate 911
Coalition for Clean Air
Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation
CR & R
Dignity Health
Environmental Defense Fund
Environment California
Harvest Power, Inc.
Health Care Without Harm
Health African American Families II
Health Officers Association of California
Inland Empire Disposal Association
Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works
Los Angeles County Waste Management
Lutheran Office of Public Policy - California
Maternal and Child Health Access (Los Angeles)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Network of Ethnic Physician Organizations
Next Gen Climate
Phoenix Energy
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles
Physicians, Scientists and Engineers Healthy Energy
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Sacramento
Prevention Institute
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RAMP and Community Action to Fight Asthma
Recology
Republic Services, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, Physicians for Social Responsibility
San Joaquin County Asthma and COPD Coalition
Sierra Energy
Santa Clara County Public Health Department
Solid Waste Association of Orange County
St. John's Well Child and Family Centers (Los Angeles)
The Trust for Public Land
TSS Consultants
Voices for Progress
West Biofuels
29 Individuals
OPPOSITION:
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers
California Business Properties Association
California Chamber of Commerce
California Fresh Fruit Association
California Grain & Feed Association
California Independent Petroleum Association
California Manufacturers & Technology Association
California Retailers Association
Center for Food Safety
Center for Race Poverty & the Environment Food and Water Watch
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability Communities for a
Better Environment Center for Community Action for Environmental
Justice
Comite ROSAS
Committee for a Better Arvin
Committee for a Better Shafter
Delano Guardians
Greenfield Walking Group.
Lamont Parent Partners
Los Angeles County, Solid Waste Management Committee/Integrated
Waste Management Task Force
National Federation of Independent Business
Nisei Farmers League
Western Agricultural Processors Association
Western Growers Association
Western Plant Health Association
Western States Petroleum Association
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