Industry groups and utilities are clashing with environmental justice (EJ) and public-health groups over the California air board’s evolving plan to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) such as methane, with the dispute focused primarily on whether the state should incentivize the conversion of biomass, organics and dairy waste into fuel and electricity.

Clean energy advocates and multiple lawmakers are signaling that climate change initiatives must be protected amid expectations that Democrats will scale back the overall scope of their budget “reconciliation” plan, even as details of talks remain under wraps and some major climate measures might be subject to “tweaks.”

Three months after the Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation seeking to encourage farmers to get involved in voluntary carbon markets, the House is taking initial steps to consider the bill though lawmakers are not detailing a timeline for moving the legislation.

EPA’s just-announced final rule implementing a major phasedown of climate-warming hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) coolants seeks to balance competing demands of producers, users and importers of the chemicals, including a fair and inclusive allocation of production and consumption allowances, along with a robust enforcement system to police imports.