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

May 27, 2025 - A key question is whether all of the potential environmental impacts of different approaches would be identifie d or fully understood, considered, compared, and adequately addressed without the analysis the board currently undertakes to prepare substitute environmental documents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

Assessing California’s Climate Policies: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization

May 7, 2025 - Through A B  398 , the Legislature opted to provide more specific direction about certain program design features —such as specifying the share of compliance obligations that can be met with offsets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5042

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified by the C ommission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed (permanently eliminating it or making it optional), suspended (rendering it inoperative for one year), modified, or funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

Jan 7, 2025 - Chapter  488 of 2006 (A B  32 , N ú ñez) established the goal of limiting GHG emissions statewide to  1990 levels by 2020. In 2016, Chapter  249 (S B  32 , Pavley) extended the limit to  40  percent below  1990 levels by  2030.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

The 2025-26 Budget: Various California Air Resources Board Proposals

Feb 24, 2025 - Moreover, signals from the new federal administration suggest it is not likely to grant California additional waivers, making it unlikely that CARB will be able to enforce the b ulk of these regulations for at least the next four years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan a Based on Governor ’s revenue assumption of $4.2 billion in 2025 ‑26. b Governor proposes shifting $32 million of planned spending on CERIP from GGRF to Proposition 4.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4960

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 -  $50  million and 50 positions ongoing beginning in 2023 ‑24 (smaller amounts starting in 2019 ‑20)  to operate and maintain seven C ‑130 air tankers from the federal government, including contract funding for flight crews, maintenance parts and logistics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952