Keep tabs on climate and energy legislation in California and urge your representatives to take action for a climate-safe future.
Existing law defines an electric bicycle to mean a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and subjects a person riding an electric bicycle to provisions of law governing the operation of a bicycle. This bill would require the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University … Read more
The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 provides for the adoption of rules, regulations, and procedures, under the administration of the Director of General Services, for the allocation of state funds by the State Allocation Board for the construction and modernization of public school facilities. Existing law requires the California Energy Commission to … Read more
Existing law requires the California Energy Commission, working with the State Air Resources Board and the California Public Utilities Commission, to prepare, and update biennially, a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of EV adoption required for the state to meet its goals of putting at least … Read more
Existing law vests the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and requires the CPUC to enforce rules governing the extension of service by electrical corporations. This bill would require the CPUC to establish, on or before September 30, 2024, reasonable average and maximum target energization time periods, … Read more
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board (ARB) as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and requires all state agencies to consider and implement strategies to reduce their GHG emissions. This bill would require all new building and major … Read more
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that the lead agency proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative … Read more
Existing law vests the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning the construction of a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the CPUC a certificate that the present or future public convenience … Read more
A spot bill. Existing law vests the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires the CPUC to establish a surcharge to fund low-income assistance programs and cost-effective energy efficiency and conservation activities and public interest research and development not adequately provided by the competitive and … Read more
Existing law prohibits a well operator from injecting a concentrated carbon dioxide fluid produced by a carbon dioxide capture, removal, or sequestration project into a Class II injection well for purposes of enhanced oil recovery, including the facilitation of enhanced oil recovery from another well. This bill would exclude from the above prohibition the incidental and … Read more
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board (ARB) to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) strategy to achieve a reduction in the statewide emissions of methane by 40%, hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases by 40%, and anthropogenic black carbon by 50% below 2013 levels by 2030. Existing law requires the ARB in … Read more