Video & Transcript Research : 'carbon emissions'
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NM
Transcript Highlights:
- those greenhouse gas emissions, establishing emission limits and reductions starting in 2030 and ending
- carbon-intensive sources of energy to produce electricity and reducing methane losses and emissions
- carbon zero.
- And again, this is not zero emissions. This is over what emissions were in 2005.
- And again, this is not zero emissions. This is over what emissions were in 2005.
Summary:
The Senate opened with roll call, an invocation, pledges, and a series of announcements and guest introductions tied to several recognition days, including Disability Rights Awareness Day, Elevate the Spectrum Day, Geothermal Rising Legislative Day, DWI Awareness Day, and Adult Education and Literacy Day. Senators also welcomed guests for New Mexico Down Syndrome Day and other constituent visits, and the chamber read certificates recognizing the Hurley family and the New Mexico Military Museum, as well as adult education and literacy programs across the state. Testimony and remarks highlighted the service of the Hurley family, the importance of adult education for workforce and civic participation, and the contributions of people with disabilities and their families. The Senate adopted multiple committee reports and received House messages on several bills and resolutions.
On third reading, the Senate passed Senate Bill 96, as amended, which streamlines child care licensing and reduces administrative barriers to opening or expanding child care homes and centers; an HOA-related floor amendment was adopted after discussion about local restrictions and neighborhood traffic concerns. The chamber then passed Senate Bill 14, as amended, which expands the state’s health professional loan repayment program with $25 million in funding split between physicians and allied health professionals/nurses, with questions focused on eligibility, prioritization, and whether the funding would be sufficient to address shortages. Senators also debated the bill’s support for part-time service and its role in helping New Mexico compete for medical workers.
The Senate next passed Senate Bill 104 unanimously, establishing a process for removing a wildlife commissioner that requires gubernatorial initiation, notice and a hearing, and direct review by the state Supreme Court; debate centered on due process, the removal standard of incompetence, neglect of duty, or malfeasance, and how the new process compares with prior law. Finally, the chamber took up Senate Bill 50, which would give the Law Enforcement Training Standards Council more flexibility to set training curricula for officers, especially in rural departments; sponsors said the bill preserves minimum training while allowing updates for current issues, but several senators raised concerns that the measure could weaken explicit statutory requirements for domestic violence and sexual assault training and asked how those topics would remain protected in the future curriculum.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Citizen Commission for Performance Measurement of Tax Preferences May 7th, 2025
Citizen Commission for Performance Measurement of Tax Preferences
Transcript Highlights:
- 5801, which, among other provisions, creates a new sales and use tax exemption for sales of zero-emission
- Indian tribes to provide public transportation, and it directs JLARC to evaluate the number of zero-emission
- transit buses titled in the state and the estimated resulting reductions in carbon and particulate matter
- 5801, which, among other provisions, creates a new sales and use tax exemption for sales of zero-emission
- transit buses titled in the state and the estimated resulting reductions in carbon and particulate matter
Summary:
The Citizen Commission for Performance Measurement of Tax Preferences met on May 7, 2025, with quorum present. The commission approved the October 22, 2024 meeting minutes and then received its annual open government refresher from the Attorney General’s office, which reviewed key requirements under the Public Records Act and Open Public Meetings Act, including record retention, response deadlines, exemptions, and meeting notice rules.
Staff then provided a 2025 legislative session update, noting that the legislature passed 23 tax-preference-related bills, with several signed by the governor and others pending. Highlights included bills that extended or repealed certain preferences, added reporting requirements for newspaper and digital content exemptions, authorized JLARC to adjust its work plan when data is unavailable, and created a new exemption for zero-emission buses. The commission approved updates to the 2026 tax preference review schedule, which includes eight preferences in seven reviews, and approved unchanged testimony questions for 2025.
The commission also received the 2025 expedited preference review report covering 52 tax preferences, presented as an interactive table drawing on prior JLARC reviews and Department of Revenue studies. Staff then outlined the process for developing the next 10-year review schedule for 2027-2036, including surveying the legislature, incorporating new and repealed preferences, and considering a possible rolling 10-year schedule. No public comment was registered. The meeting ended with acknowledgments of Ron Buing’s long service on the commission and an announcement that the next meeting would be held August 6, 2025.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- accounts, and then in addition the account you probably are most familiar with, which we call CERA, the carbon
- emissions reduction account, and that is the account that transportation spends out of.
- This page indicates an impact of the carbon emissions reduction account, which I don't think is correct
- As you know, transportation is a major source of carbon pollution in Washington, causes heart and lung
- As you know, transportation is a major source of carbon pollution in Washington, causes heart and lung
Keywords:
county ferry district, ferry district, passenger-only ferry, passenger ferry, Puget Sound, Vashon, Seattle, Southworth, county transportation, local taxing authority, property tax levy, general obligation bonds, municipal corporation, public transportation benefit area, WTSC, Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, ferry terminal, wharf, shuttle service, marine transportation
Summary:
The committee first held a public hearing on Substitute House Bill 2251, which would restructure Climate Commitment Act accounts and change how cap-and-invest auction revenue is distributed. Staff explained that the bill would create new operating and capital accounts, repeal several existing accounts, and shift revenue to a percentage-based formula that caps funding for the carbon emissions reduction account at $359 million while directing set percentages to the new accounts and the air quality and health disparities account. Members asked about the fiscal note, the effect on transportation funding, and whether the bill would change allowable uses of the CERA account; staff said it would not. Testimony was largely supportive, with proponents saying the bill adds clarity and stability, while tribal testimony urged clearer protection and accounting for the 10% tribal set-aside and carryover of unused funds. The hearing then moved to House Bill 2588, which would allow county ferry districts to operate and finance vehicle ferries, not just passenger-only ferries. County officials, ferry users, and advocates supported the bill as a local funding tool for aging ferry systems in Whatcom, Pierce, Skagit, and Wahkiakum counties, and said it would not itself raise taxes. The committee then heard House Bill 2722, which would raise the maximum vehicle weight subject to transportation benefit district vehicle fees from 6,000 pounds to 10,000 pounds; staff estimated the change could raise about 3% more revenue statewide, and the sponsor and supporters argued it would better reflect modern vehicle weights and road wear, while trucking interests said they could support a 9,000-pound compromise threshold. The final public hearing was on House Bill 2727, creating an Educational Transit Access Grant Program for transit agencies and community and technical colleges to pilot free or reduced fares for students; supporters said it would improve affordability and access to education, and the sponsor said an amendment may add inclusive post-secondary programs. After the hearings, the committee took executive action on a second substitute for House Bill 1923, which expands who can form passenger-only ferry service districts and where they can be formed, adds intent language about southern resident orcas, and changes the effective date to July 1, 2026. The substitute passed 23-4 with two excused, receiving a do pass recommendation.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- AB 2046 allows E85, a fuel blend consisting of ethanol and gasoline, which is a less carbon-intensive
- AB 2046 allows E85, a fuel blend consisting of ethanol and gasoline, which is a less carbon-intensive
- That's a significant emissions reduction available today using existing vehicles and infrastructure.
- It expands access to lower-cost fuel, reduces emissions, and strengthens the reliability of our fuel
- emissions throughout the lifetime.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (01/20/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- We can reduce our carbon emissions. How do we do that?
- We can reduce our carbon emissions.<04:58:40.958><c> How</c><04:58:41.120><c> do</c><04:58:41.200><c>
- We currently, of course, do not have a carbon tax or any kind of carbon pricing.
- </c><05:20:53.040><c> sort</c><05:20:53.120><c> of</c> carbon emissions, all all those sort of carbon
- </c> increased emissions? increased emissions?
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- What it does also point out is that 50% reductions in carbon, uh, greenhouse gas emission reductions
- </c> carbon allowances. carbon allowances.
- These GHG emissions.
- These GHG emissions.
- </c><03:30:40.400><c> But</c> now buy zero emission buses. Okay? But now buy zero emission buses.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Revenue Jan 27th, 2026
Joint Committee on Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- Next we'll hear testimony on H. 4722, an act promoting fair tax treatment for zero-emission vehicles.
- Again, my thanks on behalf of all the kids who we hope will be riding in clean buses without carbon emissions
- Who we hope will be riding in clean buses without carbon emissions, and the rest of the Massachusetts
- Gentile, who is here to testify in support of H. 4722, an act promoting fair tax treatment for zero-emission
- The first is House 4722, an Act promoting fair tax treatment for zero-emission vehicles, which I filed
Bills:
H3012, H4008, H4435, H4444, H4526, H4547, H4574, H4575, H4576, H4577, H4585, H4605, H4687, H4703, H4722, H4754, H4755
Keywords:
fines, property valuation, commercial property, real estate, tax penalties, property taxes, local option tax, marijuana sales, Salem, revenue generation, taxation, recreation, local government, commercial activities, Charlemont, property exemption, disabled persons, Swampscott, senior exemption, property tax
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Revenue held a hybrid hearing on 17 miscellaneous and late-file bills, with testimony focused on several local tax measures and one statewide tax policy bill. The first major item was H. 4687 for Watertown, which would permanently continue a special property tax classification arrangement allowing the city to maintain a 50% residential minimum factor and a 175% commercial shift. Watertown officials and local legislators said the temporary 2024 law prevented an estimated 18% residential tax increase that would otherwise hit homeowners, especially seniors, and argued the change would preserve the city’s current tax structure without harming commercial growth. Committee members asked about the regional business impact, whether major taxpayers might leave, and the city’s financial reserves; Watertown officials said businesses had not threatened to depart and that the city’s stabilization and free cash balances were being used for debt reduction, infrastructure, and maintaining its bond rating.
The committee also heard H. 4435, a Charlemont bill authorizing a tax on commercial recreation services. Town officials said the small rural town has a high property tax burden, limited local capacity, and heavy public safety costs from tourism and recreation activity, and they described the proposal as a locally supported way to have visitors help pay for police, fire, EMS, and infrastructure costs. Members raised legal and policy questions about whether the tax fit within existing tax authority and how it differed from meals and rooms taxes, but the town said the tax would apply to recreation services and had support from local businesses.
Finally, the committee heard H. 4722 on fair tax treatment for zero-emission vehicles, especially electric school buses and Class 3-8 trucks. Supporters, including industry representatives and Rep. Gentile, said EV buses and trucks face higher sales and excise taxes because of their higher upfront cost, which discourages adoption even though the vehicles reduce emissions and can lower operating costs over time. They argued the bill would cap tax calculations at the diesel-equivalent value, making the policy revenue-neutral while removing a penalty on electrification. Rep. Gentile also testified for H. 4755, which would amend Sudbury’s means-tested senior property tax exemption so the town would not need new special legislation if the program is renewed again after its current extension expires. No votes were taken, and the hearing concluded after testimony and questions.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Mar 5th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- In service of the port’s decarbonization goals, we conduct two separate GHG emission inventories: one
- for emissions at SEA International Airport and the other for emissions from maritime sources.
- Both inventories account for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
- Our Scope 1 and 2 goals require net zero or better by 2040, and our Scope 3 goal is carbon neutral or
- Our net zero or better by 2040, and our Scope 3 goal is carbon neutral or better by 2050.
Summary:
The committee heard briefings and public testimony on three transportation bills. Substitute Senate Bill 6170 would raise WSDOT monetary thresholds for doing repairs in-house and for contracting work intended to support small, veteran-, minority-, and women-owned businesses, increasing the regular repair limit from $60,000 to $100,000, the emergency repair limit from $100,000 to $160,000 with annual inflation adjustment, and the contracting threshold from $100,000 to $160,000. The sponsor and WSDOT supported the bill as an efficiency measure; the fiscal note indicated no fiscal impact. Washington Federation of State Employees also supported it, saying the higher limits would let highway maintenance crews do more work in-house while preserving the existing work split with contractors.
Substitute Senate Bill 6225 would authorize new and expanded transportation general obligation bonds, including $1.1 billion for highway projects in the Move Ahead Washington account, $400 million for listed highway projects with cost increases, and a $500 million increase to the SR 520 bond authorization, while also ending issuance of certain older unissued bond authorizations after June 30, 2026. Committee members asked about debt service, bond capacity, and how the money would be allocated; staff said the projects would be handled through the budget process and that the bill was intended to provide flexibility. Labor and business groups supported the bill as a way to fund preservation and maintenance and provide predictability, while Transportation Choices Coalition said any bonding should be limited and paired with broader transportation funding reforms and protection for multimodal programs.
Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6354 would allow certain qualifying U.S.-based battery electric vehicle manufacturers that have Washington service facilities and no prior franchise agreements to own and operate dealer licenses and sell directly, while also raising the dealer documentary service fee from $200 to $250 until the end of 2026 and directing part of the increase to an EV rebate program and the multimodal transportation account. Rivian and Lucid supported the bill as a compromise that would expand EV access and direct-sale options; Climate Solutions and the Port of Seattle also supported it, citing emissions reduction and affordability goals. Washington State Auto Dealers Association supported the compromise, saying it strengthens franchise protections while allowing limited direct sales. Honda, Toyota, Ford, GM, and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation opposed the bill, arguing it creates special treatment and weakens the franchise system, and some urged added consumer protections, service requirements, or bonding. The committee took no final action and closed the public hearings after testimony.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 2 on Resources, Environmental Protection and Energy May 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- LCTOP funds reduced fare programs and zero-emission equipment purchases.
- The intent in my mind about the GGRF is to help the transition, reduce carbon emissions, make California
- meet our goals to have zero emissions in the future.
- That led to the most zero-emission truck orders in state history this past year.
- Fleets, despite the attacks from the federal government, want to transition to zero-emission.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Ways & Means Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We and the innovation and clean energy and carbon reduction that that money has done.
- We're trying to create the new 1,200-acre Carbon Canyon community forest in eastern Pierce County, and
- It also adds carbon dioxide capture, mineralization, and sequestration as allowable uses.
- It also adds carbon dioxide capture, mineralization, and sequestration as allowable uses.
- Our position supports imposing a fee on emissions such as the CCA does, and we advocated for the CCA
Summary:
The committee first heard a briefing on the proposed Senate capital budget, Substitute Senate Bill 6003, which would spend about $723 million total using debt-limit bonds, Climate Commitment Act funds, and other cash resources. Staff described major investments in housing and homelessness, human services, local infrastructure, flood response, water conservation and clean energy, K-12 school modernization and seismic work, and higher education projects. Members then took public testimony from a wide range of advocates and project sponsors, most of whom urged the Senate to preserve or increase funding for specific projects in the final budget, including affordable housing, permanent supportive housing, child care facilities, food banks, behavioral health and substance use treatment centers, tribal courthouse relocation, school modernization, community colleges, university projects, floodplain restoration, community forests, and local civic or cultural facilities. Several witnesses also asked the Senate to match or approach House funding levels on items such as the Housing Trust Fund, permanent supportive housing, the Community Forest Program, Floodplains by Design, and CCA-supported clean energy and water projects. The chair noted that amendments to the capital budget were due the next day at noon.
The committee then received a briefing on Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2251, which would restructure Climate Commitment Act accounts by repealing three existing accounts and replacing them with two new accounts: a CCA operating account and a CCA capital account. Staff explained that the bill would preserve most existing uses while changing revenue distribution formulas, capping Ecology administrative costs, expanding allowable uses for EV-related costs, housing, and carbon capture/sequestration, and changing reporting and tribal consultation provisions. The bill also shifts some reporting from annual to biannual and modifies the thresholds for tribal-supported and overburdened-community investments. The fiscal note was described as relatively small, with the main impact being the revised revenue allocation structure.
Public testimony on the CCA bill was mixed. Supporters, including the League of Women Voters, said the restructuring better aligns spending with the intent of the CCA and could improve investments for tribes and overburdened communities. Critics, including the Washington Policy Center, argued the bill still lacks strong requirements to ensure CCA spending is effective and objected to reducing the frequency of the state’s climate-spending report. No votes were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- In service of the port's decarbonization goals, we conduct two separate GHG emission inventories: one
- for emissions at SEA International Airport and the other for emissions from maritime sources.
- Both inventories account for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
- Our Scope 1 and 2 goals require net zero or better by 2040, and our Scope 3 goal is carbon neutral or
- Our net zero or better by 2040, and our Scope 3 goal is carbon neutral or better by 2050.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Feb 12th, 2026 at 06:05 pm
Senate Tax, Business & Transportation
Transcript Highlights:
- run the data center, we will erase the greenhouse gas emissions progress reductions that we made from
- We will erase the greenhouse gas emissions progress reductions that we made from 2005 to 2021.
- So the body opted not to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
- This bill also mandates zero-carbon requirements decades in advance, which removes the flexibility to
- This bill also mandates zero-carbon requirements decades in advance, which removes the flexibility to
Keywords:
horse racing, program training, program owning, state licensing, racehorses, regulation, local news, newspaper printing, journalism, media tax credit, print media, digital news, news publisher, newsprint, press operator, printing industry, local journalism, tax credit, income tax, corporate income tax
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/03/2025)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> and carbon and carbon dioxide<00:43:38.640><c> which</c><00:43:38.880><c> are</c><00:43:39.520><
- I passed out an economist statement on carbon dividends the last bill.
- You can learn more about that at bitly Carbon Price Gap PDF. Thank you.
- Renewable energy, such as solar and wind, don't produce carbon dioxide.
- Renewable energy, such as solar and wind, don't produce carbon dioxide.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation Mar 4th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I worked for Governor Brown a decade ago, and we set a goal of 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles, and
- How do we reduce dust emissions that impact communities and restore vital habitat?
- the health of our landscapes and our waterways, our watersheds, to actually not only absorb more carbon
- And we count on only one ongoing revenue source, one dedicated essentially to try to remove carbon from
- emissions in California?
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 4/10/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Enhanced grasslands and restoring wetlands and WAS for carbon capture resiliency is being reduced by
- </c> restoring wetlands and WAS for carbon restoring wetlands and WAS for carbon capture<00:03:36.080
- </c><00:19:04.000><c> The</c><00:19:04.240><c> emission</c><00:19:04.559><c> of</c> from the omnibus
- The emission of from the omnibus bill.
- </c> committee to reconsider these emissions. committee to reconsider these emissions.
Bills:
HF2439
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Special Committee on International Sporting Events: Olympics, Paralympics and World Cup Soccer May 13th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- events like the Olympics presents a very valuable opportunity for us to think about how to reduce emissions
- They more than halved carbon emissions associated with hosting the games compared to Rio 2016 and London
- Resilience is focused on how we minimize carbon emissions across our operations while also contributing
- In terms of resilience, like I said, we're quite focused on how we can minimize the carbon emissions
- In terms of resilience, like I said, we're quite focused on how we can minimize the carbon emissions
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 2 on Resources, Environmental Protection and Energy Mar 19th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- activities that do address organic waste, including food waste prevention, which would help reduce emissions
- is one of the most powerful things that we can do from the perspective of both reducing methane emissions
- One, we have the benefit of, you know, I would say leaning on our low-carbon fuel standard.
- “We have the transparency around emissions data.
- As was also mentioned, rotting food is a huge contributor to methane and GHG emissions.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Jun 10th, 2026
Utilities and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, NOx emissions are one of the main pollutants damaging human health.
- You know, NOx emissions are one of the main pollutants damaging human health.
- temperature that is necessary to burn the hydrogen can actually increase NOx emissions.
- temperature that is necessary to burn the hydrogen can actually increase NOx emissions.
- And I'd like to follow that by saying that NOx emissions can be scrubbed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/27/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:25:40.679><c> or</c><00:25:40.760><c> not</c><00:25:40.840><c> the</c><00:25:40.919><c> carbon</c
- ><00:25:41.200><c> F</c><00:25:41.440><c> the</c> carbon or not the carbon F the carbon or not the carbon
- And once we reach 50% cullet at that factory, it will reduce emissions from glass production by around
- </c> that factory it will reduce emissions that factory it will reduce emissions from<00:44:33.839><c
- as compared to making that emissions as compared to making that amount<00:45:04.319><c> of</c><00:45
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- within the county jurisdiction for the sole purpose of issuing, revising, or enforcing a permit for emission
- The bill also specifies that the statutory requirements relating to alternative emission limitations
- control officer from issuing a permit or permit revision that requires additional reductions in emissions
- This voluntary program allows participants to generate ERCs by creating permanent emission reductions
- There are emissions that need to be taken into account that might be sited in a very populated area,
Bills:
HB2014, HB2031, HB2078, HB2102, HB2103, HB2117, HB2261, HB2262, HB2264, HB2278, HB2428, HB2494, HB2756, HB2758, HB2762, HB2782, HB2932, HB2933, HB2986
Keywords:
air emissions, fuel blends, environmental quality, feasibility study, Arizona Department of Agriculture, water rights, groundwater, Willcox, active management area, certificate of grandfathered rights, Arizona legislature, aggregate mining, reclamation plans, environmental protection, public safety, land use, domestic water, improvement district, water delivery, water hauling