Bill Text: CA AB1534 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Methane emissions: municipal solid waste landfills: remote sensing data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1534 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1534-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1534
| Introduced by Assembly Member Irwin |
February 17, 2023 |
An act to add Section 39731.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air resources.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1534, as introduced, Irwin.
Methane emissions: municipal solid waste landfills: remote sensing data.
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. Existing law requires the state board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy, as specified, to achieve a reduction in the statewide emissions of methane by 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030, and requires methane emissions reduction goals to include specified targets to reduce the landfill disposal of organics. The state board has implemented regulations pursuant to the act for the purpose of reducing methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills.
This bill would require the state board, no later than June 30, 2026, to evaluate and, if feasible and to the extent data is available, revise those
regulations to incorporate the use of methane remote sensing data.
