The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 10, 2022 - Beach Restoration. The budget includes $15  million on a one-time basis from the Public Beach Restoration Fund, via a transfer from the General Fund, to provide funding for the construction of three beach restoration projects in Orange County, the City of San Clemente, and the Cities of Encinitas and Solana Beach.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4633

Overview of California's Ports

Aug 23, 2022 - However, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach remain some of the largest sources of air pollution in the South Coast Air Basin. These ports are responsible for about 10 percent of the basin’s total NOx emissions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4618

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 18, 2021 - Long Beach Tidelands Oil Revenues. Budget trailer legislation includes language governing revenues generated from oil and gas production in the tidelands off the coast of Long Beach. Existing state law grants use of these tidelands to the City of Long Beach, and a portion of resulting oil and gas production revenues is shared by the city and the state through a series of statutory agreements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4463

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

Feb 24, 2026 - Annual reduction of $49  million to transportation funding that the state provides to cities and counties for work on their local streets and roads. State transportation funding suballocated to cities and counties for these purposes is projected to be around $3.9  billion annually —meaning this proposal would result in a reduction of about 1   percent each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - CSM determined that several of the requirements in the permit issued by the regional board in 2010 constitute state-reimbursable mandates for Riverside County and the cities of Riverside County that are within the Santa Ana region (some cities in Riverside County fall within the jurisdiction of the Santa Ana Regional Board and some within the jurisdiction of the San Diego Regional Board).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - City of Salinas ) —which found that the city did not have sufficient fee authority to levy a stormwater fee due to the voter approval requirement —was wrongly decided. Senate Bill  231, which took effect in 2018, makes increasing stormwater-related fees more straightforward for local governments because they can use the majority protest provision rather than having to seek voter approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Different cities and counties began their programs at varying times, but all are currently scheduled to end by May 2024 when the existing funds run out. CA Volunteers allocated 80  percent of the $185  million to the largest 13 cities in the state using a population ‑based formula ($148  million), and granted 19  percent on a competitive basis to 14 other cities and counties ($35  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

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

Oct 16, 2025 - The decrease is largely associated with the expiration of one-time General Fund that DTSC received to address brownfields across the state and for cleanup activities related to the Exide facility in the City of Vernon.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

A Framework for Evaluating State-Level Green Stimulus Proposals

Jan 5, 2021 - For example, in response to sea ‑level rise the Legislature might prioritize funding a dune restoration project that will mitigate erosion at a public beach, rather than supporting a similar project in a location that might instead primarily protect private coastal homes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4308