Keep tabs on climate and energy legislation in California and urge your representatives to take action for a climate-safe future.
AB 2649 (C. Garcia) The Natural Carbon Sequestration and Resilience Act of 2022 would have established the first-ever targets for sequestering from the atmosphere 60 million metric tons (MMT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) annually on California’s natural, working and urban lands by 2030, and then increased that target to 75 MMT CO2e annually by 2035. … Read more
SB 833 (Dodd) — The Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022 called for the creation of a technical assistance and grant program administered by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to help local governments develop clean energy resilience plans, leveraging the substantial related investments that have already been made by the CEC. SB 833 would have enabled … Read more
AB 1757 (C. Garcia and R. Rivas) Requires the Natural Resources Agency to determine on or before January 1, 2024, an ambitious range of targets for natural carbon sequestration, and for nature-based climate solutions, that reduce greenhouse gas emissions for 2030, 2038, and 2045 to support state goals to achieve carbon neutrality and foster climate adaptation … Read more
Existing law, The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Act) designates the State Air Resources Board (ARB) as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Under the Act, the ARB is required to approve a statewide GHG emissions limit equivalent to the statewide GHG emissions level … Read more
Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976 requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone to obtain a coastal development permit from the California Coastal Commission. This bill would authorize the Commission to authorize blue carbon demonstration projects in order to demonstrate and quantify the carbon sequestration potential of … Read more
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation (CalTrans) with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law authorizes CalTrans to lease, for up to 99 years, areas above or below state highways to public or private entities. Existing law also authorizes … Read more
Existing law authorizes the California Energy Commission (CEC) to prescribe, by regulation, energy efficiency standards, including appliance efficiency standards, to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, including to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) associated with electricity generation and the timing of an appliance’s use, as specified. This bill would provide … Read more
Existing law establishes the Atmospheric Rivers: Research, Mitigation, and Climate Forecasting Program in the Department of Water Resources. Existing law requires the department, upon an appropriation for purposes of the program, to research climate forecasting and the causes and impacts that climate change has on atmospheric rivers, to operate reservoirs in a manner that improves … Read more
Existing law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires each regional transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among other things, achieve certain targets established by … Read more
(1) Existing law establishes the Clean Transportation Program, administered by the California Energy Commission (CEC), to provide funding to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to give preference to those projects that maximize the … Read more