The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - Specifically, to the degree the Legislature is concerned that particular activities are not receiving adequate levels of support to meet its most important objectives within the overall levels of funding its budget can accommodate, it could take another look at existing program structures and funding allocations and p otentially change the mix.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Electricity Generation

Jan 6, 2020 - During the study period, BOS costs declined by less than $ 1 p er watt ($ 3 p er watt to a little more than $ 2 p er watt). Over a similar time period, hardware costs declined from over $ 7 p er watt to less than $3. 5 p er watt.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4131

Improving Outcomes for California Conservation Corpsmembers

Feb 9, 2018 - For example, for each corpsmember the department tracks ( 1)  t he number of hours worked, ( 2)  p rogress towards fulfilling mandatory training modules and specialized training courses, ( 3)  p articipation in high school education, ( 4)  p rogress towards earning scholarship benefits, and ( 5)  p rogress towards successfully completing leadership training and promoting into leadership positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3742

Expanding Access to Safe and Affordable Drinking Water in California—A Status Update

Nov 10, 2020 - For example, the aforementioned UC Davis study reports that Hispanics/Latinos make up a much larger percentage of the population served by out ‑of ‑compliance community water systems ( 57  p ercent), as compared to Caucasians ( 36  p ercent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4294

Cap-and-Trade Extension: Issues for Legislative Oversight

Dec 12, 2017 - For example, if a company uses offsets to cover 2  p ercent of its compliance obligation in 2021, can all 2  p ercent be from non ‑direct offsets (half of the 4  p ercent limit) or only 1  p ercent (half of the offsets used for compliance)?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3719

What Can We Learn From How the State Responded to the Last Major Drought?

May 13, 2021 - In March  2021, DWR announced that the State Water Project expects to deliver just 5  p ercent of requested supplies to its water contractors this year, down from an initial allocation of 10  p ercent announced in December.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - On average, these agencies reported an annual inspection rate of roughly 35  p ercent. As with CalFire, the inspection rate varied considerably across jurisdictions, with reported inspection rates ranging from 3 p ercent to 100  p ercent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget approved the first step of this plan by providing an across ‑the ‑board 10  p ercent grant increase effective April 1, 2019. The Governor ’s budget proposes to further increase CalWORKs grants by 13. 1  p ercent, which would raise grant levels to 50  p ercent of FPL for a family of three.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Transportation

Dec 21, 2018 - Based on CARB data, CVRP results in a state financial cost of over $ 400 p er ton of GHGs reduced. Primarily because the rebate amounts are much higher on average, the Clean Cars 4 All Program costs about $ 900 p er ton of GHGs reduced, according to CARB.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3912

The 2019-20 Budget: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2019 - Local water systems would be authorized to retain 4  p ercent of the revenue to cover costs associated with the collection of the charges until July 2022 when the amount the water systems could retain would decline to 2  p ercent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3933