The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package also authorizes nearly 80 new positions across 12 departments to administer Proposition  4-funded programs, as displayed in Figure  2. As shown, the number of new positions range from 13 at the Department of Conservation to one each at the Tahoe Conservancy and California Conservation Corps.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5076

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

Feb 10, 2026 - As displayed in Figure 2, the administration proposes to use $615 million of the $750 million in additional revenues to support the following activities, thus leaving a projected GGRF fund balanceof$135 million at the end of 2026‑27: CalFire Backfill.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

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

Mar 18, 2026 - Figure  4 displays current VA parties. (Some environmental groups participated in early VA discussions but later withdrew, and tribal participation has been limited. None of those groups or tribes participated in or signed on to the final agreement.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

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

Feb 10, 2026 - Third, Figure  1 displays a sizeable year ‑to ‑year decline in federal funds for CNRA departments. The biggest component of this change is about $675  million less for the California Energy Commission (CEC) in 2026 ‑27, primarily due to a federal grant it received on a one ‑time basis in 2025 ‑26 from the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

How CalFire is Spending Recent Forest Health Funds

Nov 15, 2018 - Because it represents the state ’s most significant expenditure towards improving forest conditions, throughout the rest of this web post we provide additional detail on CalFire ’s Forest Health Program spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3902

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

Dec 9, 2025 - In Figure  2, we display the order in which S B  840 allocates funding to four categories of activities. Specifically, beginning in 2026 ‑27, first priorities for available GGRF funds are the SRA fee backfill, the manufacturing tax exemption, and the Climate Bureau.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

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

Oct 16, 2025 - Due to the timing of when budget actions occurred and how DOF reflected these actions in its fiscal documents, some —but not all —of these state operations reductions are reflected in the department totals displayed earlier in Figures 1 and 2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

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

Sep 12, 2024 - As displayed in Figure  9, the 2024 ‑25 budget includes a number of budget solutions within this package. These include $106  million in reductions and $5  million in fund shifts from the General Fund to GGRF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 - The Figure displays wildfire likelihood across the state as estimated by the federal government . This reflects the estimated probability of a wildfire burning in any given year (based on fire behavior modeling across thousands of simulations of possible fire seasons).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952

Department of Toxic Substances Control: Performance Improvement Initiatives Merit Oversight

Apr 4, 2017 - In this web post, we discuss the department ’s progress to date in addressing these deficiencies, focusing on those programs that have received additional funding and personnel resources. These programs include (1)  Hazardous Waste Management Program, (2)  Exide Facilities Contamination Cleanup Program, (3)  Site Mitigation and Brownfields Reuse Program, and (4)  Office of Strategic Planning and Development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3644