Committee approves amended change to municipal greenhouse‑gas inventory methodology; staff to present revised numbers by March 1

A Los Angeles City Council committee voted to adopt an amended update to the city’s annual municipal greenhouse‑gas (GHG) inventory methodology and to have staff finalize and present the revised inventory by March 1.

The committee approved the item (Agenda Item 2) after presentations from city and utility staff, including Diana Brown, identified as an environmental specialist with Los Angeles Sanitation, and representatives from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). The amendment changed a reporting deadline from Jan. 15 to March 1 and instructs staff to use an operational‑control approach limited to in‑basin generation when calculating municipal GHGs.

The change responds to a discrepancy staff found between numbers used in the city’s municipal inventory and figures LADWP reported for its own operations. "La nueva metodología nada más incluye la generación de poder dentro de la cuenca," Diana Brown said, summarizing the narrower scope the committee endorsed.

Nut graf: The committee’s decision narrows the inventory’s treatment of power generation so that the municipal inventory…