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I am a child of California and my connection to the natural environment was forged from a young age across this vast state. I grew up in Southern California, splashing in the Pacific Ocean, wandering through the dry canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains, and stargazing among Joshua Trees, but I would also travel with … Read more
Recent extremes on every continent have been made more devastating by the burning of fossil fuels. How do we know? A new branch of science called rapid attribution studies connects the dots. Scientists estimate climate change made the high sea temperatures that fueled Hurricane Helene 200 to 500 times more likely and caused Helene to … Read more
Corporate utilities including PG&E, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric are influencing rules to maximize their profits and cut off millions of Californians from accessing affordable, clean energy. Case in point, last Friday, Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1374 (Becker). This common-sense bill would have allowed schools and apartments to use their own … Read more
SACRAMENTO — Last night, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 59 (Skinner) into law. SB 59 authorizes the California Energy Commission (CEC) to require that classes of electric vehicles (EVs) sold in California have bidirectional charging capability, which makes it possible to use the enormous amount of energy stored in EV batteries to shore up the … Read more
Climate champions in the state legislature introduced critical bills this year aimed at supporting affordable and reliable clean energy and forcing oil and gas corporations to clean up their pollution. Four key bills survived and, with your help, could soon become law if signed by Governor Newsom: With major support from you and from across … Read more
At the end of August, we gathered 50+ climate activists in Sacramento for a ’Make Polluters Pay’ rally to highlight three critical bills pending before California lawmakers: Shortly after the rally, with thanks to your phone calls and letters to decision-makers, all three bills passed the legislature and now await the governor’s signature! A new … Read more
California should be a place where democracy and fairness rule. But after another round of record spending on lobbying by oil companies this year, the oil and gas industry has sabotaged key bills designed to protect public health and the climate. Big Oil lobbying expenditures for the first half of 2024 came in at a … Read more
Learn why The Climate Center is mobilizing support for Prop 4 in this Sacramento Bee op-ed. Thanks to climate activism across the state, including over 1,000 of The Climate Center’s supporters, a $10-billion climate resilience bond will be on the November ballot. The climate bond, known as Prop 4, includes urgently needed protections against extreme … Read more
With an anti-science, climate-denying, far-right extremist officially the Republican nominee for president, it might feel like public support for climate action is dwindling. But recent polling tells a much more encouraging story. For the first time, a majority of American voters across party lines say they want the country to do more to address the … Read more
In 2023, Governor Newsom signed SBX1-2, which aims to prevent fuel price-gouging. The law includes a provision for the California Energy Commission and California Air Resources Board (CARB) to conduct a Transportation Fuels Assessment and develop a Transportation Fuels Transition Plan that will determine how the state transitions to clean fuels. CARB will be starting … Read more
