Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - Figure 4 Select State Policies That Seek to Increase Water Conservation 2009 Chapter 4 (SB X7 ‑7, Steinberg) Known as the Water Conservation Act of 2009, required development of urban water use targets to achieve a 20 percent reduction in water use per capita by 2020 ( “20x2020 ”). 2014 ‑2015 Proclamations (1/17/14 and 4/25/14) Executive Orders B ‑26 ‑2014, B ‑28 ‑2014, B ‑29 ‑2015, and B ‑36 ‑2015 Proclaimed a drought state of emergency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

The 2023-24 Budget: CalRecycle’s Zero Waste Plan Proposal

Feb 28, 2023 - CalRecycle has continued to provide annual updates on the state ’s progress in meeting the A B  341 goal, but has not conducted a comprehensive assessment since 2015. Recent Legislation Expanded CalRecycle ’s Responsibilities for Certain Waste Streams.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4719

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

Jan 7, 2025 - For example, consistent with statutory direction contained in S B  350 in 2015, CPUC has authorized IOUs to implement a variety of ratepayer ‑funded programs to help support statewide adoption of ZEVs, including installing publicly available charging stations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

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

May 13, 2021 - California ’s most recent drought included the driest consecutive four ‑year stretch since statewide precipitation record ‑keeping began — 2012 t hrough 2015 —with 2014 r epresenting the third driest year on record.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, lower and warmer water levels in the Sacramento River in the summers of 2014 and 2015 resulted in the death  of 95  p ercent of the river ’s juvenile winter ‑run Chinook salmon in those years —practically  eliminating two out of three existing cohorts of this endangered species.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - In 2015, this was the site of the largest gas blowout in the history of the United States, an event which led to numerous negative effects on the health and quality of life for nearby residents. The Southern California Gas Company, which owns the gas storage facility that experienced the leak, agreed through a legal settlement to pay $71  million into a fund —the Aliso Canyon Recovery Account —to address some of the resulting impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Energy Policy Changes

Mar 10, 2023 - The IRP process was established in 2015 through Chapter  547 (S B  350 , de Le ón) to plan for how LSEs could meet mid ‑ and long ‑term energy procurement and GHG goals while maintaining reliability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4735

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Moreover, SCO required municipalities to submit all claims for activities associat ed with this mandate no later than 2015. As such, the state should not expect any future costs to materialize for this mandate beyond those included in the Governor ’s proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Agriculture

Dec 15, 2021 - Over 100 Projects Funded Since 2015. The program has provided a total of $195  million in grants to 117 digester projects. (We note that the 2021 ‑22 budget provided an additional $80  million from the General Fund over two years for DDRDP and AMMP —with budget bill language providing funding priority to AMMP.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4483

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - In 2015, the federal government established the Precision Medicine Initiative , which combines efforts of various federal agencies to further precision medicine and allocated $215 million for precision medicine research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523