The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentive

Feb 24, 2026 - The state has made notable progress in pursuing its ZEV adoption goals in recent years, with the share of new passenger vehicles sold in California that are ZEVs climbing from 8  percent in 2020 to over 20  percent in 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5140

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - These numbers represent about 25  percent and 8  percent, respectively, of their historic annual averages prior to being listed as threatened or endangered under state law. Other fish that migrate through or live in the Delta also are listed as threatened or endangered, including Central Valley steelhead and Delta smelt.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

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

Feb 10, 2026 - This climate research is required by law to be completed every five years pursuant to Chapter  136 of 2020 (S B  1320 , Stern) and provides data and information that state agencies and local governments use to inform their planning and programmatic decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 -  $4 million in 2020 ‑21, increasing to $8 million and 24 positions thereafter to implement FireSIM and FireCAST wildfire forecasting technologies. CalFire, OES, CMD, and   CPUC —Wildfire  Threat Assessment
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952

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

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes $8  million on an ongoing basis from the Certification and Compliance Fund (CCF) to support CARB ’s mobile source laboratory in Riverside, which helps ensure that manufacturers meet the state ’s emissions standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - For example, the Governor counts $27  billion in constitutionally required spending on schools and community colleges, nearly $8  billion in required reserve deposits, and $3  billion in required debt payments in his calculation of the surplus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2024-25 Budget: CalFire—Implementation of a 66-Hour Workweek

Mar 19, 2024 - The Legislature could consider reducing the workweek at least in part by dropping the engine staffing factor back to 2.33 (the level prior to the changes approved in 2020 ‑21 and 2022 ‑23). Under this approach, the additional personnel that CalFire currently is in the process of hiring to implement a 3.11 staffing factor could instead be used to provide coverage for a reduction in the workweek.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4886

Overview of California's Ports

Aug 23, 2022 - For example, in 2021-22, TCEP provided $4.4  million to the Port of Stockton for rail improvements and $8  million to the Port of Long Beach for rail expansion. (Private businesses that operate within ports —such as truck owner- operators —also are eligible for some competitive state grants, mainly to purchase zero-emission vehicles.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4618

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

May 27, 2025 - It would so by making WQCPs “Class 8” actions. Current regulations exempt certain classes of projects from CEQA because they “have been determined not to have a significant effect on the environment.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

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

Jan 7, 2025 - As shown in Figure  8 , NEM and CARE —along with wildfire ‑related costs and public purpose programs —contribute to substantially higher rates for nonsolar, non ‑CARE IOU customers. NEM Program for Customers With Rooftop Solar.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950