SB 511: Greenhouse gas emissions inventories.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. 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 require the state board, before January 1, 2028, to develop and publish, develop, and publish on its internet website, a report on greenhouse gas emission emissions inventories for the calendar year 2025 for each city, county, or city and county, and special district, county that requests inclusion in the report, as provided. The bill would require the state board, consistent with the preparation of the updates to the scoping plan and before January 1, 2033, and every 5 years thereafter, to update the inventories inventories, for each city, county, or city and county that requests inclusion in the respective update, for the subsequent calendar years, as specified. year 2030 and every 5th year thereafter. The bill would authorize the state board to solicit bids and enter into contracts for the development of the inventories. The bill would require the state board, before January 1, 2026, to establish a local government advisory committee to inform its development of the greenhouse gas emission emissions inventories. The bill would allocate, make available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, $2,500,000 in the 202425 fiscal year for above-described purposes.