{"id":241066,"date":"2026-03-28T18:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:05:35","slug":"all-about-californias-climate-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241066\/","title":{"rendered":"All about California\u2019s climate laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 23, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held a public workshop to discuss early-stage proposals for SB-253 reporting from 2027 onwards \u2013 including Scope 3 reporting phase-in options, GHG accounting approaches and assurance frameworks. Scroll down for more on the key takeaways.<\/p>\n<p>On February 26, the CARB held a public hearing and voted to approve\u00a0 the initial regulation to implement the climate laws. The deadline for the first SB-253 report has been set as August 10, 2026. Scroll down for further information.<\/p>\n<p>On January 9, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the legal challenge to SB-261, focusing on whether the disclosure requirements constitute compelled speech under the First Amendment. The court did not issue a ruling and CARB\u2019s stay on enforcement for SB-261 reporting remains in effect pending a future decision.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date\u2026&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Bookmark this page for breaking news delivered on a timely basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/kpmg.com\/kpmg-us\/content\/dam\/kpmg\/frv\/pdf\/2026\/hot-topic-california-climate-laws-frv.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Hot Topic<\/a>, which is updated periodically, for an executive summary of the climate laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Refer to our newly issued <a href=\"https:\/\/kpmg.com\/us\/en\/frv\/reference-library\/2026\/guide-california-climate-laws.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">in-depth guide<\/a> on the California climate laws for further discussion and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On March 23, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held a public workshop to discuss early-stage proposals for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,108371],"class_list":{"0":"post-241066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-resource-sustainability-hot-topics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}