The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - This  limited the number of claimants within the Ballona Creek watershed and made some affected entities within the Los Angeles River watershed ineligible to claim reimbursement after 2008 when that trash TMDL plan was implemented.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

An Analysis of the Beverage Container Recycling Program [Publication Details]

Apr 29, 2015 - An Analysis of the Beverage Container Recycling Program [Publication Details] An Analysis of the Beverage Container Recycling Program Format: HTML Description: The Beverage Container Recycling Program has operated with an annual structural deficit averaging about $90 million since 2008-09 and is currently forecast to run an average deficit of almost $60 million from 2014-15 to 2017-18, absent any changes to reduce expenditures or increase revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3242

Proposition 7—The Solar and Clean Energy Act of 2008 [Publication Details]

Sep 11, 2008 - Proposition 7—The Solar and Clean Energy Act of 2008 [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1882

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Electricity Generation

Jan 6, 2020 - One 2008 study found that LBD benefits were roughly ten times greater than the direct environmental benefits associated with the CSI. The study found that, without LBD benefits, environmental benefits did not justify CSI subsidies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4131

Assessing California's Climate Policies—The 2022 Scoping Plan Update

Jan 4, 2023 - For context, since 2000, statewide annual emissions have only ever dropped by more than 3  percent twice: A 6  percent reduction occurred from 2008 to 2009. This was around the time of the Great Recession.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4656

New Federal Toxics Law Could Have Future Implications for State

Oct 5, 2016 - Chapters 559 of 2008 (AB 1879, Feuer) required the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to establish a process to identify and prioritize chemicals in consumer products that have the potential to have adverse impacts to public health and the environment and to establish a process for evaluating safer alternatives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3504

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - As shown in Figure  6 , from 2017 ‑18 through 2019 ‑20, the state averaged more than 1,600 schools closed due to wildfires annually, compared to an annual average of about 70 schools from 2008‑09 to 2016‑17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—An Overview

Dec 21, 2018 - The first Scoping Plan was approved by CARB in 2008, then updated in 2014 and 2017. The state has dozens of different policies in place to reduce emissions. Figure   4 summarizes the major policies in the 2017 Scoping Plan intended to help the state meet its 2030 GHG target.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3911

Preparing for Rising Seas: How the State Can Help Support Local Coastal Adaptation Efforts

Dec 10, 2019 - Such steps were spurred by Governor Schwarzenegger ’s Executive Order S ‑13 ‑08 (which in 2008 directed state agencies to begin planning for SLR and climate impacts), and several iterations of the Safeguarding California Plan (which was compiled by the California Natural Resources Agency [CNRA] and serves as the roadmap for steps that state agencies and departments should take to respond to the changing climate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4121