CARB Approves 2022 Scoping Plan On Thursday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved its final proposed 2022 Scoping Plan for Achieving Carbon Neutrality. According to a press release issued by CARB after its vote to approve the plan, full implementation of the Scoping Plan would "reduce demand for petroleum by 94%, cut air pollution by 71%, reduce greenhouse gas emissions 85%" and enable the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2045. As previously reported in Legislative Bulletin, the Scoping Plan takes an inconsistent approach to livestock grazing, arguing that the State should "Accelerate demand for dairy and livestock product substitutes such as plant-based or cell-cultured" products to diminish livestock methane emissions while simultaneously calling for "prescribed grazing…to support soil carbon sequestration" and utilizing "livestock to consume vegetation to reduce fuel loads…in forests, grasslands, and shrublands."