Keep tabs on climate and energy legislation in California and urge your representatives to take action for a climate-safe future.
AB 2731 (Ting) Would require that 100% of all newly purchased, contracted, or operated school buses of a school district, county office of education, or charter school to be zero-emission vehicles by January 1, 2035. STATUS: HELD in the Appropriations Committee August 11 (FAILED).
AB 2816 (Ting) Focuses electric vehicle incentives on displacing gasoline; prioritizes transitioning lower income drivers using the most gasoline to EVs, and has the effect of reducing the total number of EVs required on the road to achieve a 50% reduction in California’s light duty vehicle emissions. Read the coalition Letter of Support. STATUS: HELD August 11 in … Read more
AB 2878 (Aguiar-Curry) Forest biomass “waste” utilization. STATUS: HELD August 11 in the Sen. Appropriations Committee (FAILED).
AB 2944 (Petrie-Norris) Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to include an evaluation of how carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technologies are contributing to the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals in an annual report to the Legislature. STATUS: DEAD. Approved in the Assembly May 23; Double-referred to the Senate Environmental Quality and Judiciary Committees; … Read more
AB 2076 (L. Rivas) Would establish the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program to be administered through the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program (ICARP), for the purpose of coordinating state efforts and supporting local/regional efforts to prevent and mitigate the impacts of, and reduce the public health risks of, extreme heat. Would require the Governor’s … Read more
SB 733 (Hueso) Requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to consider establishing procurement goals for “renewable hydrogen,” as defined, for gas utilities and transporters, as specified. Additionally requires the PUC to evaluate whether to authorize a gas corporation to recover expenses from infrastructure built to deliver biomethane, renewable hydrogen, or both from a producer to the … Read more
SB 778 (Becker) SB 778 would have added concrete to the Buy Clean program to leverage the state’s purchasing power in deploying low carbon technologies and best practices across the cement-concrete supply chain. STATUS: APPROVED in the Senate. Now in the Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee. 7/5/2022 FAILED pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was A. A. & … Read more
SB 839 (Dodd) Pursuant to existing law, the commission has authorized the state’s three major IOUs to offer reliability-based demand response (DR) programs, including the Base Interruptible Program (BIP), which is available to qualifying nonresidential customers. This bill would require each of those IOUs to make its BIP available to its qualifying commercial and industrial customers regardless of … Read more
SB 881 (Min) This was an Integrated Resource Planning Bill. It would require the CPUC to require each load-serving entity (LSE) in the state to undertake sufficient procurement to achieve a diverse, balanced, and reliable statewide portfolio and realize specified electricity sector greenhouse gas emissions reductions. STATUS: DEAD. Amended May 19 in the Appropriations Committee. Held in … Read more
SB 917 (Becker) This bill, the Seamless Transit Transformation Act, would direct the Metropolitan Transportation Commission of the Bay Area to develop a program that would streamline service among the 26 transit agencies that serve the Bay Area. Read the author’s factsheet. STATUS: Held August 11 in the Assembly Appropriations Committee; FAILED.