SACRAMENTO, CA – Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) issued the following statement in response to the recently proposed SB 54 regulations.

“We appreciate the Department’s diligent work to address the various issues stakeholders raised with the previous set of SB 54 regulations. While it appears they were able to improve aspects that help producers more efficiently begin implementing the program, we have concerns with several provisions that appear to conflict with law. Notably, it appears the proposed draft regulations exempt certain products that are clearly in the program’s scope. We also worry the draft regulations are now written to allow producers to use polluting technologies in violation of the law. Getting these provisions right continues to be a top priority for us as we continue to engage in this process.”