California Bill Would Study Ways To Slash Industrial Heat Process GHGs

California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would require state agencies to assess ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrial facilities’ heat processes by at least 85 percent below 1990 levels by 2045, amid industry arguments that the bill essentially establishes a de facto target for the sector assuming full electrification. The bill is a “key first step for California to modernize industrial manufacturing and plan for how the industrial sector will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions,” said...