Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - A key strategy for reducing home losses during wildfires is for homeowners to maintain an area free of excess or dead vegetation around their homes, known as defensible space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 spending plan appropriates $91  million from Proposition  4 specifically for CNRA, including $47  million for the Urban Greening Program. Additionally, the budget includes a total of $77  million General Fund in 2025-26 for CNRA to coordinate and distribute across a variety of one-time efforts and projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2015-16 Budget: Major Features of the Adopted Plan (Other Issues)

Jun 19, 2015 - Chapter  1, Statutes of 2015 (AB  91, Committee on Budget) —the emergency drought legislation passed in March  2015 —included $660  million (primarily from Proposition  1E) for flood protection projects in urban and rural areas, as well as for grants to local governments for local flood protection activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3278

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - After accounting for these modifications —along with those made in 2023 ‑24 —the budget retains $1.1  billion for sustainable agriculture activities across a five-year period (from 2021 ‑22 through 2025 ‑26), which is 91  percent of the multiyear amount originally planned.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

The 2019-20 Budget: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2019 - Agricultural fertilizers and animal wastes app lied to croplands are by far the largest regional sources of nitrate in groundwater, although other sources can be important in certain areas. SWRCB Administers Programs to Provide Safe Drinking Water.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3933

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

Nov 10, 2020 - SWRCB found that in 2019 , while only about 5 percent of the total 7,403 active public water systems had one or more violations of water quality standards, over 91 percent of those that failed to comply contained fewer than 500 service connections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4294

The 2016-17 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 16, 2016 - The 2016-17 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection $187.0 $14,299.6 a Includes $2 million in one –time General Fund for Department of Forestry and Fire Protection deferred maintenance projects that was included in Chapter 1 of 2015 (AB 91, Committee on Budget). b As identified in the 2016 California Five –Year Infrastructure Plan .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3354