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SB 840, explained

Greenhouse gases: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: studies.

Passed into law Chaptered · Author: LimÃ³n

In plain English

This bill addresses how California reduces greenhouse gas emissions (gases that trap heat in the atmosphere). It clarifies the rules for a market-based system where companies can buy and sell allowances to emit these gases, and it directs how money collected from selling these allowances gets used.

If this passes

What would actually change, according to the bill's official digest. No predictions, no opinions.

The Air Resources Board would continue to have power to set and update greenhouse gas emission limits and reduction rules
Companies covered by the rules could use offset credits (paying to reduce emissions elsewhere instead of reducing their own) but would face limits on how much they could use
Money collected from auctioning or selling emission allowances would go into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and be spent for specified purposes
The state board could keep revising the market-based compliance system as needed to meet California's greenhouse gas goals

Who's lobbying this bill

36 organizations reported lobbying activity mentioning this bill. California disclosures don't say which side an organization is on, only that they paid to influence it. Amounts shown are payments to lobbying firms where the filing discloses them.

Marathon Petroleum Corporation And Its Subsidaries, Respectively

paid to lobbying firms, quarters naming this bill · 3 filings

$225K

Sempra Energy And Its Affiliates San Diego Gas & Electric And So. Cal. Gas Co.

paid to lobbying firms, quarters naming this bill · 6 filings

$162K

Central Valley Salinity Coalition

paid to lobbying firms, quarters naming this bill · 3 filings

$120K

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Sources

Bill text and Legislative Counsel's Digest: California Legislative Information (leginfo).
Lobbying activity: quarterly lobbying disclosures (Forms 625/635) filed with the California Secretary of State (Cal-Access).

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