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Board adopts ordinance establishing city greenhouse-gas target and departmental action plan
Summary
The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an ordinance amending the Environment Code to set a city greenhouse gas emissions target and authorize the Department of the Environment to coordinate a departmental action plan.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on May 6 adopted an ordinance amending the Environment Code to establish a city greenhouse gas emissions target and to authorize the Department of the Environment to coordinate a departmental action plan to meet that target.
The ordinance (item 12 on the agenda) passed by unanimous roll call; the clerk recorded 11 ayes. The ordinance language directs the Department of the Environment to coordinate interdepartmental efforts to meet the newly established target and to make environmental findings required by the code.
No substantive debate on the floor was recorded in the meeting transcript beyond the item description and the roll call. The ordinance will take effect according to the normal timetable for municipal ordinances unless other effective-date language is specified in the final adopted text.
