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Excerpt: Trump's Climate Rollbacks Will Keep Emissions Higher for Longer
With the Environmental Protection Agency's repeal of greenhouse gas standards for existing and new fossil-fuel power plants, alongside a proposal to remove federal oversight of the nation's largest industrial emissions source, the Trump administration has now dismantled the core of the federal climate regulatory architecture, following February's rescission of vehicle GHG standards and the 2009 endangerment finding that underpinned them. VX News here republishes Bloomberg's analysis of what those rollbacks mean for the U.S. emissions trajectory. Drawing on modeling from Energy Innovation and Rhodium Group, the piece finds that decarbonization could be delayed by roughly a decade, with about one additional gigaton of CO₂ in 2040. Read the original article here.
CARB Fleshes Out Proposed SB 253 GHG Emissions Reporting and Assurance Requirements for 2027 and Beyond, and More, at July 21 Public Meeting
VX News here excerpts a Ropes & Gray update by Michael Littenberg, Marc Rotter, and Peter Witschi that reports that at a July 21 public meeting, the California Air Resources Board presented its latest thinking on SB 253 reporting and assurance requirements starting in 2027. That law required companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue doing business in California to disclose their Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions – which will work starting in 2027. Find the Ropes & Gray original Update on 2026 SB 253 reporting here.
