Keep tabs on climate and energy legislation in California and urge your representatives to take action for a climate-safe future.

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AB 580 (Bennett) Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program: Solar Farms

Status: Failed in Committee, Two-Year Bill
Horizontal Single Axis Trackers (RayTracker) Solar Installation near Winters, California by User:Msrt10

Existing law vests the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Under existing law, the Legislature appropriated $40 million from the General Fund to the Department of Conservation to implement the Multi-benefit Land Repurposing … Read more

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SB 823 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Discounted EV Charging Payment Card Program

Status: Held in Committee
Person charging EV

Existing law vests the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) with regulatory authority over all public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the CPUC, in consultation with the California Energy Commission (CEC), the State Air Resources Board (ARB), electrical corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, to evaluate policies to develop infrastructure sufficient to overcome any … Read more

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AB 43 (Holden) Greenhouse gas emissions: building materials: embodied carbon trading system

Status: Enacted
Cement Being Poured

Existing law, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Act) requires the State Air Resources Board (ARB) to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Under the act, a violation of a rule, regulation, order, emission limitation, emission reduction measure, or other … Read more

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SB 619 (S. Padilla) Certification of facilities: electrical transmission lines

Status: Vetoed by Governor

Existing law authorizes persons proposing eligible facilities, including electrical transmission lines carrying electricity from certain other facilities that are located in the state to a point of junction with any interconnected electrical transmission system, to file applications for certification, on or before June 30, 2029, with the California Energy Commission (CEC) to certify sites and … Read more

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AB 1626 (McCarty) Fleet data information-sharing with hydrogen fuel station developers

Status: Failed in Committee, Two-Year Bill

Existing law requires the California Energy Commission (CEC), in collaboration with the State Air Resources Board (ARB), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and other relevant stakeholders, to annually gather from state agencies specified entities’ fleet data for on-road and off-road vehicles in the medium- and heavy-duty sectors, including information that would allow an electrical … Read more

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AB 1711 (J. Carrillo) Hydrogen

Status: Failed in Committee, Two-Year Bill

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the CPUC and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to undertake specified actions to advance the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives, including, where feasible, cost effective, and consistent with other state policy objectives, increasing … Read more

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SB 663 (Archuleta) “Clean” hydrogen in the Renewables Portfolio Standard

Status: Failed in Committee, Two-Year Bill
Capitol Building in Sacramento

Existing law establishes the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program, which requires the Public Utilities Commission to implement annual procurement targets for the procurement of eligible renewable energy resources, which is defined as an electrical generating facility that meets the definition of “renewable electrical generation facility” subject to certain conditions, for all retail sellers, as defined, … Read more

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SB 746 (Eggman) Energy conservation contracts: green hydrogen: Tri-Valley-San Joaquin Valley Regional Rail Authority

Status: Enacted
Capitol Building in Sacramento

Under existing law, a public agency may enter into specified energy conservation contracts, including into contracts for the sale of electricity, electrical generating capacity, or thermal energy produced by the energy conservation facility at such rates and on such terms as are approved by its governing body. Existing law also: This bill would authorize the Tri-Valley-San Joaquin … Read more

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AB 552 (Bennett) Regional Farmer Equipment and Cooperative Resources Assistance Program

Status: Vetoed by Governor
Farmers in Rockingham County, Virginia check the results of no-till farming in their fields on September 9, 2008, as part of their participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative (CBWI).

Under existing law, the Department of Conservation administers various programs relating to agriculture including the California Farmland Conservancy Program. Existing law authorizes the program to offer financial assistance, including grants or contracts, for projects and activities on agricultural lands that support agricultural conservation and sustainable land management, including, among other projects and activities, the acquisition of agricultural … Read more

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AB 673 (Bennett) Hydrogen-fueling stations

Status: Failed in Committee, Two-Year Bill
Capitol Building in Sacramento

Existing law establishes the Clean Transportation Program, administered by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to provide financial assistance 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 specifies projects that are eligible for financial assistance, including alternative and renewable fuel projects … Read more