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SB 318 would modernize air permitting to favor cleaner technologies, sparking district concerns
Summary
Sen. Becker's SB 318 aims to update permitting definitions and create a CARB-centered clearinghouse so local permitters can consider cleaner fuels or electrification in lieu of signatures that only require incremental control; air districts and business groups expressed concern about complexity, preemption and operating impacts
Sen. Becker presented SB 318, the California Clean Air Permit Modernization Act, saying current permitting practice often considers only control measures that keep an industrial process intact rather than asking whether a cleaner technology or fuel could achieve the same outcome.
Becker said the bill would update permit definitions, build on a technology…
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