The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Most notably, because including state operations expenditures as part of Tier 1 means they receive first priority for available GGRF, adding new activities to this category can have the effect of gradually “crowding out ” other GGRF ‑funded programs and activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - The state added the doubling goal as a narrative water quality objective in the 1995 Bay ‑Delta Plan. Doubling natural production relative to the average annual 1967 ‑1991 baseline would mean nearly 900,000 naturally produced salmon annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - Financing is important for the project, since its funding needs are not well ‑aligned with the timing of cap ‑and ‑invest  revenue allocations. Certain Effects of Legislation Will Become Clearer Over Time and Will Depend on CARB Decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - There also are a number of other refiners in the United States that currently produce RD and could, with the purchase of some ad ditional equipment, be converted to produce SAF in addition to, or instead of, RD.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - Providing a full or partial CEQA exemption or alternative process for these state-only permits would reduce processing times. (SWRCB estimates t hat exempting state-only permits from having to meet CEQA requirements would shorten their preparation time lines by at least a year.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Proposals at May Revision

May 19, 2025 - Moreover, if the Legislature does not use GGRF to help ad dress the state ’s budget problems, it will be faced with making even greater reductions to General Fund-supported programs or increasing revenues by a like amount.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5049

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - If it needs to provide less funding, the Legislature could also consider revisiting LCI ’s statutory requirements, time lines, and associated resource needs —for example, by reducing expectations around how the office should implement the CalHeatScore extreme heat ranking.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions

Feb 17, 2026 - Legislature Was Given More Time to Consider About 1,000 Residual Positions That the Governor Had Proposed to Eliminate. In May 2025, the administration proposed permanently eliminating 6,002 positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentive

Feb 24, 2026 - The Governor proposes $200  million on a one ‑time basis ($115  million from GGRF and $85  million from APCF), along with associated budget trailer legislation to create a new incentive program for light ‑duty ZEVs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5140

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

Feb 10, 2026 - Eliminating planned one ‑time spending generally is less disruptive than cutting support for base, ongoing programs. However, nearly all of this one ‑time funding has now been spent or committed to specific projects and thus cannot easily be pulled back.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116