Back story: AB 32 set a 2020 target for reducing emissions to 1990 levels. The bills to watch include:• SB 32: This would require greenhouse gas emissions to be 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, a more aggressive set of mandates than those established by California's landmark climate change law, AB 32, enacted in 2006. What the legislation would do: A handful of bills are now pending that would make major changes to the state's decade- old law that requires greenhouse gas levels in California to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. Jerry Brown already announced that he’s looking down the road, possibly a ballot measure in 2018, to make the changes he wants. • AB 197: This would require new oversight of the state's Air Resources Board, and require future rules to be designed with an eye toward the impact on low-income communities.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 11, 2016 01:07 UTC