CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2578Introduced by Assembly Member CunninghamFebruary 18, 2022 An act relating to greenhouse gases. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2578, as introduced, Cunningham. Climate strategy: carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration.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 ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to incorporate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies as a part of Californias climate strategy to meet the various statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) California has been a leader in the fight against climate change and has set ambitious goals to reduce the negative effects of climate change on the state.(2) California has the opportunity both geologically and with its highly skilled industrial workforce to develop and deploy many new and existing carbon-reducing technologies.(3) There has been a growing consensus among experts in the scientific community, including experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, Stanford University, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, that carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies are critical to a successful climate strategy globally.(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to incorporate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies as a part of Californias climate strategy to meet the various statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2578Introduced by Assembly Member CunninghamFebruary 18, 2022 An act relating to greenhouse gases. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2578, as introduced, Cunningham. Climate strategy: carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration.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 ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to incorporate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies as a part of Californias climate strategy to meet the various statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2578
Introduced by Assembly Member CunninghamFebruary 18, 2022
Introduced by Assembly Member Cunningham
February 18, 2022
An act relating to greenhouse gases.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2578, as introduced, Cunningham. Climate strategy: carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration.
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 ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to incorporate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies as a part of Californias climate strategy to meet the various statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
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 ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to incorporate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies as a part of Californias climate strategy to meet the various statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
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## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) California has been a leader in the fight against climate change and has set ambitious goals to reduce the negative effects of climate change on the state.(2) California has the opportunity both geologically and with its highly skilled industrial workforce to develop and deploy many new and existing carbon-reducing technologies.(3) There has been a growing consensus among experts in the scientific community, including experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, Stanford University, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, that carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies are critical to a successful climate strategy globally.(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to incorporate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies as a part of Californias climate strategy to meet the various statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) California has been a leader in the fight against climate change and has set ambitious goals to reduce the negative effects of climate change on the state.(2) California has the opportunity both geologically and with its highly skilled industrial workforce to develop and deploy many new and existing carbon-reducing technologies.(3) There has been a growing consensus among experts in the scientific community, including experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, Stanford University, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, that carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies are critical to a successful climate strategy globally.(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to incorporate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies as a part of Californias climate strategy to meet the various statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) California has been a leader in the fight against climate change and has set ambitious goals to reduce the negative effects of climate change on the state.(2) California has the opportunity both geologically and with its highly skilled industrial workforce to develop and deploy many new and existing carbon-reducing technologies.(3) There has been a growing consensus among experts in the scientific community, including experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, Stanford University, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, that carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies are critical to a successful climate strategy globally.(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to incorporate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies as a part of Californias climate strategy to meet the various statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
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(1) California has been a leader in the fight against climate change and has set ambitious goals to reduce the negative effects of climate change on the state.
(2) California has the opportunity both geologically and with its highly skilled industrial workforce to develop and deploy many new and existing carbon-reducing technologies.
(3) There has been a growing consensus among experts in the scientific community, including experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, Stanford University, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, that carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies are critical to a successful climate strategy globally.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to incorporate carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration and other engineered carbon removal technologies as a part of Californias climate strategy to meet the various statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.