Bill Text: NY A00964 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2024; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 89-15)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-17 - print number 964b [A00964 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00964-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         964--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. WOERNER, THIELE, SAYEGH, WILLIAMS, MAGNARELLI,
          COLTON, STIRPE, WALLACE, CARROLL, STERN, REYES, FAHY,  PAULIN,  JONES,
          LUPARDO,  RIVERA,  DICKENS,  SIMON,  ZEBROWSKI, HEVESI, WEPRIN, ROZIC,
          SANTABARBARA, WALKER, COOK, VANEL, DINOWITZ, HUNTER, BARRETT, GUNTHER,
          SEAWRIGHT, JACOBSON, HYNDMAN, BENEDETTO, AUBRY, McMAHON, BURKE,  JACK-
          SON,  BURDICK, ANDERSON, LUNSFORD, BRAUNSTEIN, BURGOS, CLARK, PEOPLES-
          STOKES, BRONSON,  JEAN-PIERRE,  RAJKUMAR,  SIMPSON,  RA,  CRUZ,  FALL,
          TAYLOR,  K. BROWN,  DURSO, DILAN, KIM, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, BUTTENSCHON,
          CONRAD, DeSTEFANO, GIBBS, MIKULIN, STECK, BORES, RAGA, ARDILA,  SOLAG-
          ES,  SHIMSKY,  McDONALD,  LAVINE, DE LOS SANTOS, GANDOLFO, CUNNINGHAM,
          EPSTEIN,  LEE,  SIMONE,  L. ROSENTHAL,  FORREST,  EACHUS,   LEVENBERG,
          SILLITTI,  NOVAKHOV, ZINERMAN, PRETLOW, SEPTIMO, ZACCARO, MEEKS, PHEF-
          FER AMATO, DAVILA, SLATER, BENDETT, ALVAREZ, DARLING,  CHANDLER-WATER-
          MAN,  MCGOWAN, FLOOD, BLUMENCRANZ, O'DONNELL -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted  to  the
          Committee  on  Environmental  Conservation in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
          to the Committee on  Environmental  Conservation  in  accordance  with
          Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2 -- again reported from said committee with
          amendments, ordered reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          establishing the "clean fuel standard of 2024"

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Legislative findings and declarations:
     2    1. The transportation sector in New York is a leading source of crite-
     3  ria  pollutants  and the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions that
     4  endanger public health  and  welfare  by  causing  and  contributing  to
     5  increased  air  pollution  and  dangerous  climate  change.  Meeting the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01696-06-4

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     1  pollution reduction requirements of the Climate Leadership and Community
     2  Protection Act will require sharp  decreases  in  transportation-related
     3  emissions.
     4    2.  Shifting  from  today's  petroleum-based  transportation  fuels to
     5  alternative fuels has the potential to significantly reduce  transporta-
     6  tion emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases and is recommended
     7  by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as an important pathway
     8  for holding global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
     9    3.  The  Climate  Leadership  and Community Protection Act directs the
    10  Department of Environmental Protection to  promulgate  regulations  that
    11  will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including from on-road vehicles.
    12    4.  New York signed a 15-state MOU to develop an action plan to reduce
    13  toxic diesel emissions from medium and heavy-duty vehicles by 2050.
    14    5.  A  clean  fuels  standard  regulation  would  promote   innovation
    15  production  and use of non-petroleum fuels that reduce vehicle and fuel-
    16  related air pollution that  endangers  public  health  and  welfare  and
    17  disproportionately impacts disadvantaged communities.
    18    § 2. Short title. This act may be known and may be cited as the "clean
    19  fuel standard of 2024".
    20    §  3.  The  environmental  conservation law is amended by adding a new
    21  section 19-0333 to read as follows:
    22  § 19-0333. Clean fuel standard.
    23    1. A clean fuel standard is hereby established. The clean fuel  stand-
    24  ard  is  intended  to  reduce  greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road
    25  transportation sector by twenty percent by two thousand thirty-two.   In
    26  advance of two  thousand thirty-two and every five years thereafter, the
    27  department  shall  promulgate  regulations determining the minimum addi-
    28  tional greenhouse gas  intensity  reduction  to  be  achieved  over  the
    29  following  five  years,  with further reductions to be implemented based
    30  upon advances in technology and to support achieving the requirements of
    31  the New York state climate leadership and community protection  act  and
    32  the goals of the scoping plan established pursuant to section 75-0103 of
    33  this  chapter,  as  determined by the commissioner.  Fuels which provide
    34  net human health benefits through overall air quality improvements rela-
    35  tive to diesel and gasoline usage shall be  eligible.    Aviation  fuels
    36  shall   be  exempted  from  the  clean  fuel  standard  due  to  federal
    37  preemption, but sustainable aviation fuel shall be eligible to  generate
    38  credits on an opt-in basis to  help  encourage  development  of a viable
    39  sustainable aviation fuel market.
    40    2. The clean fuel standard shall apply to all providers of transporta-
    41  tion  fuels,  including electricity, in New York, shall be measured on a
    42  full fuels lifecycle basis and may be met through  market-based  methods
    43  by  which providers exceeding the performance required by the clean fuel
    44  standard shall receive credits that may be applied to future obligations
    45  or traded to providers not meeting the clean fuel standard.  The  gener-
    46  ation  of  credits  must  use  a  lifecycle  emissions performance-based
    47  approach that is technology and feedstock neutral to achieve  greenhouse
    48  gas  reductions.  In addition, the department shall consider other envi-
    49  ronmental impacts of fuels in determining  credits,  including  but  not
    50  limited  to  crop displacement impacts and forms of pollution other than
    51  greenhouse gas emissions, whether or not  occurring  within  the  United
    52  States.
    53    3.  For  purposes  of this section the term "providers" shall include,
    54  but shall not be  limited  to,  all  refiners,  blenders,  producers  or
    55  importers  of  transportation  fuels, or enablers of electricity used as
    56  transportation fuel, "greenhouse gas intensity" means  the  quantity  of

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     1  lifecycle  greenhouse  gas  emissions per unit of fuel energy, and "full
     2  fuels lifecycle" means the aggregate greenhouse gas emissions, including
     3  direct emissions and indirect emissions, such as emissions  from  direct
     4  or indirect land use changes, whether or not such emissions occur within
     5  the  United States, measured in carbon dioxide equivalents, as such term
     6  is defined in subdivision two of section 75-0101 of this  chapter,  with
     7  aggregate  per unit fuel energy emissions determined by the commissioner
     8  after consideration of all relevant factors, including  as  contemplated
     9  by subdivision four of this section.
    10    4.  The  full  fuels  lifecycle  shall  be  assessed annually and such
    11  assessment shall include all stages of fuel and feedstock production and
    12  distribution, including but  not  limited  to  feedstock  generation  or
    13  extraction  through  the distribution, delivery, and use of the finished
    14  fuel by the ultimate consumer.
    15    5. a.  Within twenty-four months following the effective date of  this
    16  section, the commissioner, in consultation with the New York state ener-
    17  gy  research  and  development  authority,  shall promulgate regulations
    18  establishing a clean fuel standard with performance objectives to imple-
    19  ment subdivision one of this section.   Such regulations  shall  include
    20  establishment of measures to limit costs and maximize savings.
    21    b.  The  clean  fuel  standard  shall  take into consideration the low
    22  carbon fuel standard adopted in other states, and the recommendations of
    23  the scoping plan, and shall include coordination with other Northeastern
    24  states to promote regional reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
    25    c. In addition, such regulations shall:
    26    (i) require providers to disclose all information material  to  deter-
    27  mine  the  full  fuels lifecycle and impose rigorous standards regarding
    28  transparency with respect to information  relevant  to  determining  the
    29  full fuels lifecycle;
    30    (ii) require such disclosure and transparency in order to obtain cred-
    31  its; and
    32    (iii)  impose  significant penalties for failure to disclose or report
    33  information required by such regulations or as  otherwise  requested  by
    34  the department.
    35    d. Such regulations shall include fees for the registration of provid-
    36  ers to offset the costs associated with implementation of the clean fuel
    37  standard.
    38    e. Such regulations shall allow for a deferral of the program based on
    39  emergency or forecasted conditions.
    40    6.  Electric  utilities, state agencies, and authorities, in consulta-
    41  tion with the climate justice working group and the climate action coun-
    42  cil established pursuant to section 75-0103 of this chapter,  shall,  to
    43  the extent practicable, invest or direct available and relevant program-
    44  matic  resources  to  provide  forty percent of such electric utility's,
    45  state agency's, or  authority's  overall  credit  value  on  electrified
    46  transportation  programs,  projects,  or investments to directly benefit
    47  disadvantaged communities, including, but not limited  to,  electrifica-
    48  tion and battery swap programs for school or transit buses; electrifica-
    49  tion  of  drayage trucks; investment in public electric vehicle charging
    50  infrastructure and electric vehicle charging infrastructure in multi-fa-
    51  mily residences; investment in electric mobility solutions such as elec-
    52  tric vehicle sharing and ride hailing programs; multilingual  marketing,
    53  education,  and  outreach designed to increase awareness and adoption of
    54  electric vehicles; and additional rebates and incentives for  low-income
    55  individuals beyond existing local, federal, and state rebates and incen-
    56  tives.

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     1    7.  Within  twenty-four  months  following the adoption of regulations
     2  implementing a clean fuel standard, the commissioner shall report to the
     3  legislature regarding the implementation of the program, the  reductions
     4  in  greenhouse  gas  emissions that have been achieved through the clean
     5  fuel  standard and targets for future reductions in greenhouse gas emis-
     6  sions from the transportation sector.
     7    8. Nothing in this section shall preclude the department from enacting
     8  or maintaining other programs to reduce greenhouse  gas  emissions  from
     9  the transportation sector.
    10    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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