AB 2347

Bill Subjects

Abstract

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. The act, requires the state board, when adopting those regulations to, among other things, minimize leakage and defines leakage to mean a reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases within the state that is offset by an increase in emissions of greenhouse gases outside the state. This bill would additionally define leakage to mean a shift in jobs from within the state to locations outside of the state.