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

Feb 24, 2025 - California statute provides authority for CARB to issue regulations for motor vehicle fuel specifications, among other areas. Under this authority, CARB has established regulations that authorize the use of up to 10  percent ethanol in gasoline (a blend known as E10).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - These include potential changes to the number of allowances the state makes available and the allocation of those  allowances. 2030 Expiration of Statutory Authorization. Before the Legislature last extended the statutory authorization for the cap ‑and ‑trade program in 2017, revenues from GGRF began to decline due to investor uncertainty about the status of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4960

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 - (For more on this this authority as well as DREOA, please see The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities ) The Legislature also has broad authority to provide additional funding for disaster and wildfire response.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952

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

Jan 7, 2025 - Recent Legislation Requires CPUC to Authorize IOUs to Collect Fixed Charges. Chapter  61 of 2022 (A B  205 , Committee on Budget) modified state law to repeal the $10 limit on fixed charges and required CPUC to authorize fixed charges that vary by income for residential electricity rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - For example, Proposition  4 authorizes $79  million for the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) to establish the San Andreas Corridor Program. WCB believes this allocation would benefit from additional discussions with the Legislature before it designs an implementation plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4958

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

Sep 12, 2024 - Increase in Ongoing Reimbursement Authority. The spending plan provides CalFire with an additional $125  million in reimbursement authority on an ongoing basis. This authority is intended to enable CalFire to receive reimbursements from non-state entities —such as the federal government —for work that the department completes on their behalf.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

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

Mar 5, 2024 - Authorizes DPR to Enforce California ’s Laws on Out ‑of ‑State Pesticide Dealers. The proposal would authorize DPR to levy administrative penalties of up to $15,000 on violations related to pesticide dealers, such as when entities act in this role without a license.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4873

The 2024-25 Budget: Salton Sea Management Program

Feb 26, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Salton Sea Management Program Summary The Governor ’s budget proposes $65.2  million from the General Fund in 2024 ‑25 to support the Salton  Sea Management Program (SSMP) and authority for 18 new positions phased in over two years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4859

The 2024-25 Budget: Insolvency Risks for Environmental and Transportation Special Funds

Feb 27, 2024 - First, the Legislature could defer to BES to use its statutory authority to raise the generation and handling fee and align revenues with the amount of 2024 ‑25 expenditures authorized for HWCA. Second, the Legislature could begin to develop its own proposal to increase the amount of revenues collected from the generation and handling fee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4858

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - Several components of the package —including related to streamlined judicial review, CDFW ’s authority to authorize take of fully protected species, CalSTA ’s NEPA delegation authority, Caltrans ’ job order contracting authority, and Caltrans ’ expanded environmental mitigation authority —are only authorized for roughly the next decade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785