A California lawmaker introduced a bill Tuesday to expand the state’s power to reduce pollution amid concerns that the Trump administration will roll back portions of its existing regulatory authority.
What it does: AB 914, by Assemblymember Robert Garcia, would require the California Air Resources Board to adopt rules regulating emissions linked to “indirect sources,” like warehouses and ports, that don’t themselves emit significant greenhouse gases and pollutants but attract high-emitting trucks and trains.
State law allows regional air quality management districts to establish indirect source rules, and bodies like the Bay Area and South Coast air quality management districts have used that power to clamp down on warehouse emissions.
The bill would expand those sorts of rules to cover the entire state.
