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

Feb 17, 2026 - At the State Water Resources Control Board, positions include staff who help regulate waste discharge into waters of the state, including drinkin g water sources. Eliminating these positions consequently would come with serious trade-offs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

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

Feb 10, 2026 - However, such a delay would force the Legislature to either accept solutions that have not received sufficient public discussion or defer action even more.   Addressing Structural Deficits Will Be Very Challenging.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

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

Feb 24, 2026 - Conversely, if the credit makes S AF production more attractive than RD for some producers, it could cause a dramatic increase in SAF sales in California, both among existing SAF producers and among other producers and distributors who sell diesel in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2022-23 Budget: Oil Well Abandonment and Remediation

Jan 31, 2022 - Both performance grant types have not yet been allocated and it is unclear when the federal government will accept applications. Other Ways to Pay Remediation Costs May Be More Appropriate. Under the polluter pays principle, private parties who produce pollution (such as environmental damage associated with oil and gas wells) should bear the costs of managing it to prevent damage to human health or the environment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4508

The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - Therefore, the proposal would remove SWRCB ’s discretion to potentially accept protests from parties that have a legitimate reason to protest but made an error in the process. The proposed changes that would shorten the time line for legal challenges also could have a similar effect —weeding out frivolous lawsuits, but also disqualifying legitimate challenges from less well-resourced parties who could not meet the tightened deadline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

Improving Outcomes for California Conservation Corpsmembers

Feb 9, 2018 - This account was established by legislation in 1994 t o accept funds received by the CCC in payment for work projects. The money in the CDRA is continuously appropriated to the CCC and may be used for the following purposes: ( 1)  p rogram expansion to hire more corpsmembers, ( 2)  e nhancement of corpsmember education and educational support services, ( 3)  e nhancement of equipment used by corpsmembers in projects, and ( 4)  p rogram support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3742

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

Oct 16, 2025 - This program supports coordinators in 47 of 58 counties who work with local organizations and residents to improve community wildfire preparedness through education, events, and grant funding. Home Hardening Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Residential Electricity Rates in California

Jan 7, 2025 - Th is is largely due to California ’s relatively robust cost ‑reduction programs for low ‑income households and rooftop solar customers, which are subsidized by other ratepayers who do not qualify for those discounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - Ensure Certain CII Customers Convert to Dedicated Irrigation Meters or Accepted Alternative. Proposed regulations would require suppliers to identify CII customers with large landscapes (defined as those that use 500,000  gallons of water or more annually) that use mixed ‑use meters and convert those to dedicated irrigation meters or accepted alternatives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

The 2023-24 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of CalFire’s Emergency Fire Protection Budget

May 1, 2023 - We recommend modifying the budget bill language governing the E ‑Fund to explicitly limit its use only to unplanned costs associated with responding to large wildfires —such as for overtime paid to firefighters who respond to fires that go beyond the initial attack.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4765