The agency overseeing California’s first-in-the-nation emissions reporting law consulted with business lobbyists in a failed bid to significantly narrow the measure before it passed the legislature last year, according to internal emails obtained by Bloomberg Government.
Proposed amendments drafted by staff at the California Air Resources Board would have scrapped a requirement for the companies that will be covered under the law to report greenhouse gas emissions from their suppliers and customers — language that environmentalists say is key for the state to hit its ambitious climate goals to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.
David Ernest García, legislative director at ...