Position Letters 2022

Bills sponsored by The Climate Center:

AB 2649 (C. Garcia) Sponsored by The Climate Center. Sets targets for natural and working lands carbon dioxide sequestration.

SB 833 (Dodd) Sponsored by The Climate Center. The Community Energy Resiliency Act of 2022.

Letters of Support for other bills:

AB 1001 (C. Garcia) Aims to have the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) better align with environmental justice principles at the state and local levels.

AB 1939 (L. Rivas) Climate education in grade school.

AB 2076 (L. Rivas) Would establish an extreme heat and community resilience program.

AB 2550 (Arambula) Attainment of Air Quality Standards. Also see May 16 Coalition Letter of Support.

AB 2816 (Ting) EV incentives aimed at gasoline super-users.

SB 260 (Wiener) Large corporation GHG reporting

SB 379 (Wiener) Will provide resources to local governments to support online permitting of solar and storage installations.

SB 778 (Becker) Includes concrete in the CA Buy Clean program.

SB 852 (Dodd) Creates Climate Resilience Districts

SB 905 (Skinner) Carbon capture of process emissions from cement manufacture.

SB 1112 (Becker) Related to building decarbonization.

SB 1158 (Becker) Integrated Resource Plan greenhouse gas reporting.

SB 1173 (L. Gonzalez) CalPERS and CalSTRS fossil fuel divestment.

SB 1251 (Gonzalez) Creates a California Office of Zero Emission Vehicle Equity Advocate

SB 2667 (Friedman) Funding Distributed Energy Resources

SCR 53 (McGuire) Declaration of a climate emergency.

Support-if-Amended

AB 1218 (McCarty) Internal combustion vehicle phaseout. Died in committee.

Letters of Opposition

Letter to the California Public Utilities Commission opposing proposed Net Energy Metering Rules.

SB 733 (Hueso) Gas utility renewable hydrogen procurement.

SB 1101 (Caballero) Carbon sequestration: pore space ownership and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Program

SB 1399 (Wieckowski) Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage

Letters of Support for Non-bill Initiatives

Budget Letter to Governor Newsom, Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senator Nancy Skinner, and Assemblymember Phil Ting with Recommendations to Ensure State Investments in Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) Also Support Enhanced Grid Reliability (Vehicle to Grid Integration – VGI/Bidirectional Charging Standards and Mandate), December 9, 2022

Letter to Governor Newsom, Assemblymember Anthony Rendon, and Senate pro Tem Toni Atkins calling a special session of the legislature to establish a refiner windfall profit cap, October 18, 2022

Letter of support to President Biden for Build Back Fossil Free initiatives, February 24, 2022