Posted on 01/25/2022 7:32:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Bills on corporate carbon emissions and air quality regulation will demonstrate whether the Legislature and its current leadership intend to act with urgency in addressing climate change this year. As important, their handling of the bills will signal whether Democratic legislators have the backbone to prioritize climate action over political and financial calculations and the influential trade groups that oppose such legislation.
SB 260, the Climate Corporate Accountability Act, would require corporate giants that earn $1 billion or more in revenue to disclose greenhouse gas emissions. San Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener’s bill would arm state regulators with the data to ensure California’s biggest companies are reducing emissions to meet the state’s clean energy goals.
SB 342, authored by Sen. Lena Gonzalez of Long Beach, would allow the state to add two people who live and work in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside or San Bernardino county to the 13-member South Coast Air Quality Management District board. The goal is to add an environmental justice perspective to a board that regulates air quality in one of the most polluted regions in the country and has been consumed with partisan politics.
While neither bill represents a dramatic turn in California’s handling of the climate crisis, both are meaningful and needed. Private corporations have a significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions, and expanding the South Coast’s air quality board empowers citizens to bypass unjust political games and improve the health of their communities.
California can no longer accept indifference from Atkins and other Senate Democrats on good climate policy. The fate of such bills will determine whether all the recent promises on climate are real or just more kindling for future fires.
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Although Sacramento may successfully drive everyone else out you can be certain the High Tech oligarchs who fund the communist state of California will not be affected by this legislation at all.
If we would just make it a FELONY for ANY Public Employee to utilize any mode of Transportation other than Mass Public Transit to and from thier respective workplaces and Require ALL Media Companies, Print and Electronic to use 100% Renewable Green Energy for every aspect of thier business, most of these problems would disappear overnight.
For billion dollar corporations, there are none on that stupid little eco nazi board that would have anyway to validate the submitted numbers. So big corps should just give them a ten thousand page submission of bogus modeled numbers, just like the eco kooks come up with their numbers.
They’ll give the high tech corporations an exception, the same way the democrats exempt unions from their destructive Draconian policies. As long as you grease the palms, you will be exempt.
Tax the pants off these big big companies, Pissaki says they won’t raise prices on their products and services to pay the increase in taxes.
Pissaki wouldn’t lie, that would be unethical!
good name for her
I do think that the politicians in Sacramento have combined income greater than $1B and are clearly exceeding CO2 emissions.
Bump to your ideas.
Data centers in Ireland use up about a fourth of the country’s electricity.
Like with ObamaCare crappola, buckets of waivers will be available — for a campaign contribution.
Notice to businesses in Calif:
BOOK your moving trucks ASAP.
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