Keep tabs on climate and energy legislation in California and urge your representatives to take action for a climate-safe future.
The Climate Center’s Bill Tracker helps you stay on top of the climate bills that are in front of the California legislature — and take action. The tracker includes a curated list of bills addressing energy, climate justice, transportation, adaptation, resilience, sequestration, and other issues related to the climate crisis. To review all bills in … Read more
SB 233, introduced by Senator Nancy Skinner and sponsored by The Climate Center, aims to unlock the potential for California’s millions of electric vehicles to power homes during outages, lower energy bills for Californians, and make the whole electricity grid more reliable. The bill will require most new electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle supply … Read more
SB 12, introduced by Senator Henry Stern and sponsored by The Climate Center, requires California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, accelerating the state’s current statutory goal of 40 percent reductions by 2030. California’s current goal to reduce emissions by 40 percent by 2030 puts us … Read more
SB 1101 (Caballero) Would require the Air Resources Board to establish a Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Program to accelerate the development of new technologies to capture and sequester carbon dioxide emissions from industrial and commercial facilities. It further specifies that free “pore space” (the tiny but cumulatively voluminous spaces underground between soil or mineral grains) … Read more
AB 2667 (Friedman) Until recently this was a bill that The Climate Center supported. It was hijacked by the utilities and is now a bad bill. They inserted harmful amendments that would deter communities and customers from building their own clean microgrids. The amendment language would set a terrible precedent and harm efforts by local governments … Read more
SB 1482 (Allen) Would require mandatory new building standards for the installation of EV charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings to include specific technical and signage requirements. STATUS: APPROVED in both houses August 31; Returned by the Governor without his signature.
SCR 53 (McGuire, et al) – Declares that a climate emergency threatens the state, the nation, the planet, the natural world, and all of humanity. Read The Climate Center’s SUPPORT LETTER. STATUS: “Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 119, Statutes of 2022.”
SB 1382 (Gonzalez/Becker) Would require the implementing regulations for the Clean Cars 4 All Program to additionally ensure that the state air resources board coordinates with local air districts and local nonprofit and community organizations to identify barriers to accessing the Clean Cars 4 All Program and to develop outreach protocols and metrics to assess the … Read more
SB 1322 (Allen) Requires operators of refineries in the state to report to the California Energy Commission the volume of crude oil refined into gasoline in the prior month, the average price paid for each barrel of crude oil that is refined into gasoline in the prior month, and the gross and net refining margins per … Read more
SB 1251 (Gonzalez) This bill would establish the Office of the Zero-Emission Vehicle Equity Advocate in the Governor’s office to steer the development of a shared, cross-agency definition of equity, and to set an equity agenda for the deployment of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles, the supporting infrastructure, and workforce development. Read the author’s factsheet. Read … Read more
SB 1230 (Limón) Aimed at simplifying the application process for zero-emission and near-zero emission vehicle incentive programs. Read the author’s factsheet. STATUS: APPROVED in both houses as of August 30. SIGNED by the Governor on September 16.
SB 1205 (Allen) SB 1205 will mandate the development of regulations that govern climate change considerations in water availability analyses for water rights permits. STATUS: Approved in both houses August 31. SIGNED by the Governor on September 16.
SB 1203 (Becker) Would require that state agencies “aim” to achieve zero net emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from their operations no later than January 1, 2035. Read the author’s factsheet. STATUS: APPROVED in both houses as of August 30. SIGNED by the Governor on September 16.