CARB Extends Deadline for Scoping Plan Adoption
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Responding to increasing criticism from stakeholders, California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) delayed the planned adoption of the Update Scoping Plan from this April to its June board hearing. Stakeholders from all sectors had been questioning the need for such a rapid adoption of the plan given that the plan’s focus has been exclusively on post-2020 implementation.
CLFP, along with other industrial stakeholders subject to the Cap-and-Trade program, has been critical of CARB’s failure to address continuing issues with the current program, such as the scheduled loss of allowances in the third compliance period. Beginning in 2018, food processors are expected to lose 25% of their free allowances due to their designation as a medium leakage risk. In light of the extension, CARB expects to hold at least two additional workshops on the Updated Scoping Plan.
