News from the GCVCC Legislative Advocacy Committee

AB 1001 OPPOSE.  AB 1001 would require unnecessary and overlapping regulations for criteria pollutants that are already regulated and managed at the Federal, State and local level, creating administrative hurdles and substantial costs.

This bill appears to seek to again expand the authority of local air districts in certain communities, creating authority to deny permits in these communities if the permitting agency finds that approval of the application would, “together with other environmental or public health stressors,” “cause or contribute to adverse cumulative environmental or public health stressors in the overburdened community that are higher than those borne by other communities.” AB 1001 would do this by requiring the creation of a broad “environmental justice impact statement.”

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AB 1001 Oppose Garcia C.