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

Feb 18, 2025 - Specifically, the survey found that 23  percent of respondents earn $30,000 or less; 19  percent earn between $30,001 and $60,000; 15  percent earn between $60,001 and $90,000; and 11  percent report earning between $90,001 and $120,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

The 2023-24 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Revenue Estimates

Mar 2, 2023 - This includes $2.5  billion from projected budget-year auction proceeds and $298  million from other GGRF revenues (such as interest earnings, additional current-year revenues from the November 2022 auction, and utilizing the existing GGRF fund balance).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4730

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

Feb 24, 2026 - (ZEVs typically cost several thousand dollars more to purchase than conventional vehicles). While the proposal attempts to magnify the potential effect of incentives by requiring manufacturers to provide a dollar ‑for ‑dollar match, the incentive amount likely still would be relatively small.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5140

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

Feb 10, 2026 - Absent such additional direction, the Legislature will largely be deferring to CPUC to make decisions about how to allocate this funding —which could total in the tens of billions of dollars over the next twenty years —to utility customers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5120

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4

Oct 16, 2025 - In some cases, however, the bond-supported programs —and, therefore, the projects that ultimately will end up being funded —may differ slightly from those that might have been funded with the General Fund, so this approach does not represent a dollar-for-dollar backfill in all cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5076

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

Feb 24, 2026 - The total value of this stack depends on various factors such as LCFS and RFS credit prices, as well as the feedstocks used, but cumulatively could total a  couple dollars per gallon for SAF producers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

Cap-and-Invest: November 2025 Auction Update and 2026-27 Budget Context

Dec 9, 2025 - Senate Bill 840 made various modifications to the allocation of GGRF revenues starting in 2026-27, such as (1)  changing some allocations from being set percentages of GGRF revenues to fixed dollar amounts and (2)  changing the order in which certain allocations are made.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5096

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

Feb 10, 2026 - For example, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the Bay Area indicates that, consistent with the SB 125 plan it submitted to the Legislature, it programmed about $250 million of the anticipated funds which the Legislature has not yet appropriated for two Bay Area Rapid Transit expansion capital projects in order to help leverage billions of dollars in forthcoming federal support from the Capital Investment Grant Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

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

Feb 10, 2026 - In the context of a budget deficit, every dollar of new spending essentially comes at the expense of a previously identified priority and requires finding a commensurate level of solution somewhere within the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

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

Oct 16, 2025 - In some cases, however, the bond-supported programs —and, therefore, the projects that ultimately will end up being funded —may differ slightly from those that might have been funded with the General Fund, so this approach does not represent a dollar-for-dollar backfill in all cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080