AB-32 Show All

Name of Bill / Law AB 32
Summary / Timing
  • Passed in September 2006
  • 2009 mandatory reporting of 2008 emissions (with verification).
  • Cap-and-trade regulation by January 1, 2011, and the program itself must begin in 2012.</li
Gases Covered
  • 6 Kyoto gases
  • Most facilities will have only CO2, CH4 and N2O.
  • SF6 and HFCs included in the electricity sector.
Sectors and Thresholds
  • Cement Plants
  • Petroleum refineries (>25K MTCo2/yr)
  • Hydrogen plants (>25K MTCo2/yr),
  • Electricity generating and cogen (>1MW and 2,500 MTCO2/yr)
  • Electric retail providers and marketers
  • Other industrial General Stationary Combustion (GSC) facilities(>25K MTCo2/yr),
  • Natural gas transmission and oil production
  • Industrial gas producers
  • Food and beverage processing
  • Paperboard mfg
  • Steel foundries
  • Colleges and Universities
  • Mineral process
  • Glass container manufacture
  • Hospitals, schools, backup generators, portable equipment excluded
Est. # of Entities 800

Applies to the following locations

United States