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

Feb 24, 2025 - CARB indicates that it initiated a multimedia evaluation for E15 in 2018 and finalized the Tier I analysis in 2020. The department has not yet completed Tier II or Tier III but anticipates finishing these remaining steps by summer 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980

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

Mar 19, 2024 - For  example, an engine that currently is staffed at any given time with a Fire Captain and two Fire Fighter Is might instead be staffed by a Fire Captain, Fire Apparatus Engineer, and Fire  Fighter I.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4886

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - Chapter  53 of 2023 (SB  124, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) authorizes the Infrastructure and Economic Development  Bank (I-Bank) to spend future federal funding that the state might receive through the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785

The 2024-25 Budget: Sustainable Funding for the Department of Pesticide Regulation

Mar 5, 2024 - Second, i ncreasing the mill assessment to support these activities aligns with the “polluter pays ” principle, whereby those who produce or otherwise contribute to pollution (such as environmental impacts from pesticides) should bear the associated regulatory costs of managing and preventing damage to public health and the  environment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4873

The 2024-25 Budget: Salton Sea Management Program

Feb 26, 2024 - Specifically, the state established SSMP —led by CNRA in collaboration with the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) —and published a Phase I: 10‑Year Plan to guide state projects at the Sea and address potential public health and environmental effects over the subsequent decade (we describe the SSMP and Phase 1: 10‑Year Plan in more detail below).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4859

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

Sep 12, 2024 - Figure 16 Resources Provided to Implement a 66 ‑Hour Workweek As of 2024 ‑25 Budget Act (Dollars in Millions) 2024 ‑25 Reduction of Firefighter I Costs ‑14 Contracts for Aircraft Staffing and Maintenance — Vehicles Purchases, Leases, and Repair — a $197 million from the General Fund and $2 million from reimbursements and various special funds. b $756 million from the General Fund and $14 million from reimbursements and various special funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

The 2022-23 Budget: State Water Resources Control Board—Bay-Delta Plan Update

Jan 31, 2022 - In 2018, the board adopted Phase I of these new updates, which includes new water quality flow objectives for the lower San  Joaquin River and its tributaries (the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Merced Rivers), as well as updated salinity objectives for the South Delta.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4506

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - In addition, we conducted roughly 50 i nterviews with groups that have a variety of perspectives on the issue, including local fire agencies, academic researchers, nongovernmental organizations, interest groups, private companies, and state departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - Legislation approved in 2018 established a long-term urban water use efficiency framework to “Make Conservation a California Way of Life,” creating new requirements for urban retail water suppliers across the state. This report responds to a requirement that our office assess implementation of the framework.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

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

May 13, 2021 - So far, 2021 i s shaping up to be even drier. As of May 10, 2021, precipitation levels were tracking at 48  p ercent of average for the year in the Northern Sierra region, 49 percent in the mid‑Sierra San Joaquin region, and 36 percent further south in the Tulare Basin region.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429