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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is requesting
your application to serve on the AB 32 Environmental Justice Advisory
Committee (EJAC) for the 2022 Scoping Plan Update.
The 2022 Scoping Plan will begin in early 2021 and will
evaluate progress towards the 2030 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions target
and chart a path for deep decarbonization by 2045 to reduce and/or
replace fossil fuels. Recommendations from the EJAC will include just
transition and energy policies that are designed to benefit low-income
and pollution-burdened communities. Several independent modeling
studies have shown that a rapid transition away from the combustion of
fossil fuels will be necessary to achieve carbon neutrality. This
rapid transformation can have implications for jobs, household cost
impacts, and improved public health. Four key reports that are
inputs into the Scoping Plan include:
CARB’s initial timeline estimates at least five EJAC
meetings starting as early as June 2021 and continuing through summer
2022, with opportunity for at least five sets of community meetings; EJAC
can determine the number of committee and community meetings.
Criteria to select potential new EJAC members include:
- Representatives from communities in the State
with the most significant exposure to air pollution, including, but
not limited to, communities with minority populations or low-income
populations.
- Strive to include regional representation across
California and advocates from faith-based organizations,
neighborhood organizations, non-profit organizations, and tribes.
- Representatives that have expertise in
transportation; fossil gas grid and electricity grid decarbonization
and infrastructure; natural and working lands; clean fuels and
technology; public health
- Environmental justice experience in topic areas
that would contribute to the perspectives of existing active
committee members.
- Conflict of interest response: Do you have any
personal conflict of interest (whether a financial interest,
personal activity, or relationship) that could impair your ability
to act impartially and in the best interest of EJAC?
If you are
interested in applying, please send a one-page statement of interest and
one-page resume and/or one-page CV to Trish.Johnson@arb.ca.gov by 5:00 p.m.
(PDT) on April 26, 2021. CARB's Office of Environmental Justice will
receive these materials and respond to applicants.
The California
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, (AB 32; Stats. 2006, chapter 488) calls
for the California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) to convene an
Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (Committee), to advise the Board
in developing the Scoping Plan, and any other pertinent
matter in implementing AB 32. It requires that the Committee
be comprised of representatives from communities in the State with the
most significant exposure to air pollution, including, but not limited
to, communities with minority populations or low-income populations, or
both (AB 32; Part 7. Miscellaneous Provisions Section 38591). On January
25, 2007, the Board appointed the first Environmental Justice Advisory
Committee to advise it on the Initial Scoping Plan and other climate
change programs. To advise the Board on subsequent AB 32
Scoping Plan updates, CARB solicited nominations and reconvened
new committees for each update. Committee meetings are open to
the public and include a public comment period.
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