The 2020-21 Budget: Climate Change Proposals

Feb 13, 2020 - This would require annual payments averaging about $ 200  m illion from the General Fund over about the next 40 years. The exact costs and time period would depend on the specific details of the bond ’s sales.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4155

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

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

May 1, 2023 - Furthermore, given that the state has been experiencing a trend towards a greater number of large and destructive wildfires, the administration ’s approach of averaging the five highest years over the past ten years (rather than the average of all the recent years) is  reasonable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4765

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Water Resources

Mar 2, 2023 - And while recent storms may have helped recharge some shallow groundwater basins, years of overdraft in deeper basins mean it could take months or years to recharge groundwater in some areas. State Passed Major Legislation to Regulate Groundwater in 2014.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4725

What Threat Does Sea-Level Rise Pose to California?

Aug 10, 2020 - To the degree local property tax revenues drop, this also could affect the state budget in some years because the California Constitution could require that losses in certain local property tax revenues used to support local schools be backfilled by the state ’s General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4261

Assessing Vulnerability of State Assets to Climate Change

Jan 9, 2020 - One study estimates that by 2100 sea-level rise, combined with the impact of a 100-year storm, could put $150 billion of property value at risk in California, as well as cause loss of beaches and other coastal habitats.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4133

What Can We Learn From How the State Responded to the Last Major Drought?

May 13, 2021 - One of the most publicized short ‑term policies implemented during the 2012 t o 2016 drought was Governor Brown ’s call for a 25  p ercent statewide reduction in urban water use. In response to direction from an executive order, SWRCB passed emergency regulations implementing temporary water conservation requirements for urban potable water users, including certain limitations on outdoor irrigation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429

Overview of California's Ports

Aug 23, 2022 - The state plans to lend these properties to support port operations for one year, with an option to renew for another year. At the time of this writing, DGS had leased these properties to a wareho using company that will work with importers to store containers on these sites.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4618

The 2022-23 Budget: Pesticide Enforcement

May 5, 2022 - Data from DPR indicate multiple cases in recent years where regulated entities did not provide requested sale and distribution information for contaminated produce in a timely manner (roughly 45 cases annually over the past five years) and where regulated entities distributed and/or moved quarantined produce (roughly three cases annually over the past five years).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4592

A Framework for Evaluating State-Level Green Stimulus Proposals

Jan 5, 2021 - Similarly, in the California Forest Carbon Plan , the state established a goal of conducting forest restoration and fuels treatment activities on 35,000 acres of forest lands per year by 2020, increasing to 60,000 acres per year by 2030.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4308