§ 42-6.2-9. Statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction mandate.
Mandatory targets for emissions reduction:
It is hereby established that the state shall reduce its statewide greenhouse gas emissions to the targets set forth in § 42-6.2-2(a)(2)(i), as those targets may from time to time be revised, and that achieving those targets shall be mandatory under the provisions of this chapter. The targets at the time of the enactment of this act [April 10, 2021] are that greenhouse gas emissions shall be ten percent (10%) below 1990 levels by 2020, shall be forty-five percent (45%) below 1990 levels by 2030; eighty percent (80%) below 1990 levels by 2040, and shall be net-zero emissions by 2050.
History of Section.
P.L. 2021, ch. 1, § 3, effective April 10, 2021; P.L. 2021, ch. 2, § 3, effective
April 10, 2021.