Energy: greenhouse gas emissions.

(1) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of emissions of greenhouse gases and to monitor and enforce compliance with the reporting and verification program, and requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit equivalent to the statewide GHG emissions levels in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective GHG emission reductions. The act requires all state agencies to consider and implement strategies to reduce their GHG emissions. This bill would create the Climate Action Team (CAT) , consisting of representatives from specified state agencies, that would be responsible for coordinating the state's overall climate policy. The CAT, on or before January 1, 2011, and annually thereafter, would be required to prepare, adopt, and present to the Legislature, a strategic research, development, demonstration, and deployment plan that establishes priorities and identifies key expenditure categories for research, development, demonstration, and deployment funds to be expended by the state agencies represented on the CAT for the following fiscal year. The bill would require a state agency that is represented on the CAT to expend research, development, demonstration, and deployment funds, which would be administered by the Department of Transportation and allocated for clean technology, environmental protection, and public interest energy research, consistent with this plan. The CAT, on or before January 1, 2011, and biennially thereafter, would also be required to prepare and adopt a climate change impact mitigation and adaptation plan that includes specified information. (2) Existing law requires specified state agencies to prepare and submit to the Secretary for Environmental Protection, in a standardized format as determined by the California Environmental Protection Agency, specified information relating to the state agency's GHG emissions, including a list of measures adopted and implemented by the agency to meet GHG emission reduction targets, as defined, and a status report on GHG emissions reduced as a result of these measures. The California Environmental Protection Agency, on or before March 1, 2008, and January 1, annually thereafter, is required to provide that information on its Internet Web site in the form of a state agency greenhouse gas emission reduction report card. This bill would, instead, require the specified state agencies to prepare and submit to the CAT, the information in a standardized format as determined by the Secretary for Environmental Protection. The CAT would compile and organize the information submitted. The bill would additionally require the specified state agencies to submit information on other technologically feasible and cost-effective measures related to operations and programs managed by the state agencies that require statutory or regulatory changes for their adoption, and an estimate of potential GHG emission reductions from those measures. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to develop, implement, and administer the Public Interest, Development, and Demonstration Program to include a full range of research, development, and demonstration projects that are not adequately provided for by competitive and regulated energy technology markets. This bill would provide that demonstration, for purposes of this program, includes, but is not limited to, grants and loans to entities to commercialize new, cost-effective technologies in the California marketplace.