California Requires Emissions Reporting in 2008
California has become the first state in the U.S. that will require industries that produce greenhouse gases to report how much they are emitting, starting in 2008.
California has become the first state in the U.S. that will require industries that produce greenhouse gases to report how much they are emitting, starting in 2008.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) set mandatory reporting guidelines for a wide array of emissions sources such as refineries, cement plants, power plants and other large combustion devices. These industries have been reporting other pollutants to CARB for years but the requirement that they report greenhouse gases is new.
CARB also finalized the process of quantifying the amount of greenhouse gases released from all sources in the state in 1990. Quantifying these pollutants in 1990 is critical for implementation of the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), which sets the 1990 level as the maximum allowable quantity of global warming pollution in the state for 2020.
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