Texas HB4049 prohibits companies from tracking greenhouse gas emissions for compliance with federal or state laws, with civil penalties for.
HB4049 amends the Texas Health and Safety Code to prohibit companies from tracking, calculating, measuring, assessing, or estimating greenhouse gas emissions for compliance with federal or state laws, except as required by federal law. Companies, nonprofit entities, or agencies that penalize businesses for complying with this prohibition face civil penalties. The penalty is the greater of $10,000 or twice the amount expended on tracking emissions. The attorney general can institute a suit to recover the penalty.
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