An Initial Review of the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program

Dec 13, 2021 - Fourth, grantees vary in when they expect to complete their regional priority plans —those receiving grants in the first round reported their expected completion dates range from the end of 2021 to 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4482

The 2022-23 Budget: Oil Well Abandonment and Remediation

Jan 31, 2022 - Initial grants provide states up to $25  million to accelerate well remediation work. This funding has not yet been allocated, but the federal government will accept applications later this spring. Formula Grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4508

The 2020-21 Budget: Addressing Revenue Uncertainty in the 2020-21 Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Jun 4, 2020 - The Governor ’s expenditure plan includes $25  million to expand various climate research and adaptation activities, if sufficient revenue is available. However, such an expansion might be difficult to implement in 2020 ‑21 given the uncertainty about how much funding will ultimately be available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4250

Cap-And-Trade Auction Update and GGRF Projections

Dec 6, 2021 - Under current law, about 65  percent of this additional revenue ($439  million) will be continuously appropriated to high ‑speed rail (25  percent), affordable housing and sustainable communities (20  percent), transit capital (10  percent) and operations (5  percent), and safe drinking water (5  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4480

Living Under Smoky Skies—Understanding the Challenges Posed by Wildfire Smoke in California

Nov 14, 2022 - Another way to reduce smoke exposure is to make indoor spaces —such as individual homes, workplaces, schools, or community centers —cleaner . This can be accomplished by taking a variety of actions aimed at reducing the amount of smoke that travels into buildings and filtering the indoor air.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4644

The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Price and Other Fiscal Relief Options

May 12, 2022 - The state can meet SAL  requirements through a variety of actions, such as lowering revenues from certain taxes, spending more on excludable purposes (for example, tax refunds, capital outlay, and subventions to local governments), and/or providing tax rebates and additional payments to schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4597

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

Jan 4, 2023 - The plan assumes a 25  percent reduction in per capita VMT by 2030. In contrast, CARB assumes continuing with current policies (the Reference Scenario) would lead to a 4  percent reduction in VMT by  2045.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4656

Options for Creating a Forestry Management Training Center

Jan 4, 2022 - The Corps provides young adults (generally age 18 to 25) one year or longer of paid service to work on environmental projects and respond to natural disasters. The Corps operates out of 26 centers across the state, including both residential and nonresidential centers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4487

The 2020-21 Budget: Governor's Wildfire-Related Proposals

Feb 21, 2020 - Fire Engine Prepositioni ng. $25  million annually to pre ‑position mutual aid fire engines and other related equipment in order to decrease local response times to potentially destructive wildfires and other disasters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4172

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - Specifically, 21 p ercent of reporting agencies had compliance rates below 25 p ercent, while 38 p ercent had compliance rates above 75 p ercent. In the box below, we discuss some issues related to why measuring compliance rates is a valuable, though imperfect, measure of wildfire risk reduction, as well as why there is no clear optimal compliance rate that the state should target.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457