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

Mar 18, 2026 - The state added the doubling goal as a narrative water quality objective in the 1995 Bay ‑Delta Plan. Doubling natural production relative to the average annual 1967 ‑1991 baseline would mean nearly 900,000 naturally produced salmon annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: California Public Utilities Commission’s Implementation of AB 1207

Feb 10, 2026 - This is because frequent changes to the approach could increase customer confusion and make bills more unpredictable. While we expect that CPUC might need to reevaluate the specific amounts of credits that are provided each year, it is unclear why the commission would need to regularly rethink the core approach or implement significant changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5120

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - However, while previous General Fund appropriations provided some flexibility to use funding to help cover officewide administrative costs, more recent rounds such as Proposition  4 bond funding came with additional limitations and made this practice more difficult.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

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

Feb 24, 2025 - While some additional funding may ultimately be needed for CARB to implement its programs and regulations, in our assessment, the department has not made an adequate case for why the proposed broad delegation of authority is warranted and why a more narrowly crafted authorization to increase fees for specific activities would not suffice.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980

The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Most notably, because including state operations expenditures as part of Tier 1 means they receive first priority for available GGRF, adding new activities to this category can have the effect of gradually “crowding out ” other GGRF ‑funded programs and activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions

Feb 17, 2026 - Our State Spending Plan posts from 2024 and 2025 provide more information about this effort to realize budgetary savings and the sequence of events. Legislature Was Given More Time to Consider About 1,000 Residual Positions That the Governor Had Proposed to Eliminate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - There also are a number of other refiners in the United States that currently produce RD and could, with the purchase of some ad ditional equipment, be converted to produce SAF in addition to, or instead of, RD.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - For example, the new Climate Bureau could serve as a helpful resource to the Legislature, adding valuable capacity to conduct program reviews and evaluations that are independent of the Executive Branch.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

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

Jan 7, 2025 - A more rural region could have higher wildfire ‑related costs, as well as higher average fixed costs associated with distributing electricity to homes because they are more spread  out. Why Do Some IOU Customers Pay More Than Others?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - These include: Aligning State Enforcement More Closely With Federal Requirements. Relative to federal enforcement, state tools are more limited, and the maximum state penalty amounts also are lower than federal equivalents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144