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

Oct 16, 2025 - These projects include $95  million for the Butte Fire Center, $17  million for the Prado Helitack Base, and $11  million for the Macdoel Fire Station. To achieve budget savings, the spending plan also reverts $32  million General Fund that was previously appropriated for the acquisition phase of a new CalFire training center, as highlighted earlier in Figure  4.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - These suppliers serve about 95  percent of the state ’s population. Phases in Requirements and Standards Over Multiple Years … The legislation created a multiyear phase ‑in period, as shown in Figure  8 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2023 - The spending plan also authorizes $95  million in reimbursement authority annually through 2027 ‑28 to enable the department to receive reimbursements from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for repair and restoration work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

Cap-and-Trade Revenues: Strategies to Promote Legislative Priorities - Cap-and-Trade Revenues: Strategies to Promote Legislative Priorities [Video]

Cap-and-Trade Revenues: Strategies to Promote Legislative Priorities - Cap-and-Trade Revenues: Strategies to Promote Legislative Priorities [Video] Search LAO Videos Cap-and-Trade Revenues: Strategies to Promote Legislative Priorities January 27, 2016 On January 21st, 2016, our office released Cap-and-Trade Revenues: Strategies to Promote Legislative Priorities , a report about California’s cap-and-trade program.
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Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Residential Electricity Rates in California

Jan 7, 2025 - Additionally, Chapter  361 of 2022 (S B  1020 , Laird) set interim targets to this goal, requiring that zero ‑carbon sources make up 90  percent of statewide electricity sales by 2030 and 95  percent by 2035.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - To increase awareness about the program and to recruit volunteers, California Volunteers would develop a robust marketing campaign using social media platforms, such as Facebook and Ring Neighborhoods, and provide communications support to neighborhood leaders. $1.5   Million for Digital Infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

Summary of Major 2022 Climate and Energy Legislation

Jan 6, 2023 - Specifically, the legislation requires that a combination of renewable and zero-carbon sources make up 90  percent of statewide electricity sales by 2030 and 95  percent by 2035. Additionally, the legislation requires that by 2035, renewable and zero-carbon sources must supply 100  percent of the electricity used to serve state agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4660

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

Sep 12, 2024 - The 2024‑25 budget package provides a total of $17.8 billion from various fund sources—the General Fund, a number of special funds, bond funds, and federal funds—for the departments overseen by the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA). This amount represents about half of total 2023‑24 estimated expenditure levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

Assessing Vulnerability of State Assets to Climate Change

Jan 9, 2020 - Figure 1 50,000 lane miles of highways 13,000 bridges 111 Department of Motor Vehicles offices 108 California Highway Patrol offices Higher Education 10 University of California campuses 23 California State University campuses Water Resources 1,600 miles of levees in the Central Valley 700 miles of canals and pipelines ‑State Water Project 25 dams 29 pumping and power plants Natural Resources 280
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4133

The 2016-17 Budget: The State's Drought Response

Feb 5, 2016 - For example, data indicate that at least 95  percent of the juvenile Sacramento River winter –run Chinook salmon preparing to migrate to the ocean in 2014 (referred to as the 2014 cohort) —already listed as endangered by both the federal and state governments —died in the river below Shasta Dam due to high water temperatures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3343