SACRAMENTO, California — A California state lawmaker’s legislative proposal to regulate the carbon footprint of clothing sellers stalled for the second year in a row on Thursday, underscoring the headwinds facing new corporate climate mandates.
What happened: State Assemblymember Dawn Addis’ (D) AB 405, failed to advance out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where lawmakers can quietly sideline bills with fiscal impacts without a public vote, at its Thursday meeting.
The bill, which Addis first introduced last year, would have required clothing sellers with more than $1 billion in global annual revenue to disclose and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Addis and the bill’s sponsor, textile waste think tank New Standard Institute, had proposed amendments carving out exemptions for smaller clothing sellers and nonprofit thrift stores in an attempt to move the bill forward, but the California Retailers Association remained in opposition.
