GHGs
40% below the 1990 GHG emissions levels by the year 2030
What is the emissions reduction goal of SB 32?
Enacted in September 1983, this legislation created California’s program to identify and control Toxic Air Contaminants.
What is AB 1807?
$50 million in economic impact in a 12-month period
What is the threshold for a major regulation?
This inventory was used for the first planning emissions projections as a result of the California Clean Air Act.
What is the 1987 inventory?
California State Senators Fran Pavley and Fabian Nunez
Who were the authors of AB 32?
On April 8, 1993, the Board adopted staff recommendations to identify as Toxic Air Contaminants the 189 chemicals from this U.S. EPA list.
What are Hazardous Air Pollutants (or HAPs)?
The division CARB’s economics unit resided in which when first created.
What is Research Division?
This EMFAC was used for the 1994 SIP projections.
What is EMFAC7F?
Currently serving as the only source of integrated emissions data for the largest stationary point sources in the state, this tool was originally developed as a GHG visualization tool.
What is the Pollution Mapping Tool
This program’s goals include identifying facilities that may pose a localized health risk, notifying the community of the potential risk, and ultimately reducing the risk below a significant level.
What is the Air Toxics Hot Spots Program (or AB 2588)?
This is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships.
What is econometrics?
On this year, CARB created its first emission inventory.
What is 1967.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Which methodology framework does CARB use to create it’s GHG inventories?
Prior to the regulation amendments approved by the Board last year, the list of AB 2588 reportable substances had not seen a comprehensive update for this long.
What is 25 years? (15 years may be acceptable, although that was a limited update).
To date, these two divisions are responsible for promulgating the most major regulations.
What are MSCD and ISD?
This was the top emitting anthropogenic ROG category in 2020.
What is Consumer Products?
(7 Sectors) Transportation, Electric Power, Industrial, Commercial & Residential, Agriculture, High GWP, and Recycling & Waste
How many GHG sectors are in the Scoping Plan categorization of the GHG inventory?
Often referred to as “forever chemicals”, substances containing this functional group were added to the list of AB 2588 reportable substances in November 2020.
What are PFAS?
These are the first and most recently submitted SRIAs to Department of Finance in February 2014 and July 2021.
What are the Amendments to the Truck and Bus Regulation and the Proposed Heavy-Duty Inspection and Maintenance Regulation?
This was the first inventory year that CEIDARs went live.
What is 1993?