The 2021-22 Budget: California Natural Resources Agency [Publication Details]

Jan 27, 2021 - This publication discusses the Governor's 2021-22 January budget proposals for the California Natural Resources Agency, including $125 million for habitat restoration projects and $4.5 million to move to a new office building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4324

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

Mar 19, 2026 - While this funding has now mostly been allocated to grantees, Proposition  4 —the 2024 climate bond —also assigned LCI and SGC responsibilities for administering bond funding for a number of similar climate programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

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

Feb 24, 2026 - Additionally, without underst anding the number of incentives that will be provided, the Legislature does not know the number of purchases that could potentially be encouraged —at least to some degree —by the proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5140

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - The California State Parks Library Pass Program provides free access to state parks through 33,000 passes that can be checked out from public library branches throughout the state. Passes can be checked out by all library card holders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The Bay ‑Delta system is culturally and spiritually significant for a number of native tribes and central to their traditional diets. In addition, this watershed provides vital habitat for hundreds of species of fish and wildlife.
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 - (Given their number, we do not discuss every environment ‑related proposal from the Governor ’s budget. Rather, we highlight some of the larger funding requests that we feel are helpful in illustrating our recommended framework.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

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

Feb 17, 2026 - However, positions can be vacant for a number of reasons. For example, in the case of recently enacted legislation, departments likely had not yet had time to hire staff and still were in the initial process of filling the newly established positions when the Department of Finance determined that the positions would instead be eliminated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

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

Feb 10, 2026 - Electric utilities typically receive roughly one-quarter of the total number of annual allowances issued by CARB. These free allowances are intended to protect electric consumers from significant cost increases associated with the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5120

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

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

Oct 16, 2025 - Overview The 2025-26 budget package provides a total of $19.7  billion from various fund  sources —the  General Fund, a number of special  funds, bond funds, and federal funds —for the departments overseen by CNRA and CalEPA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080