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Last week Governor Jerry Brown announced in his May Revise of the state budget a proposal to loan $500 million in cap-and-trade revenues to the general fund rather than to earmarked carbon emissions reduction programs such as transit. Well, a State Senate budget subcommittee does not seem very interested: The two Democrats and one Republican [...]
Yesterday State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg submitted SB 731, a bill to reform the California Environmental Quality Act. But that was overshadowed by the even more dramatic news that the primary backer of CEQA reform in the legislature, State Senator Michael Rubio, was resigning to take a lobbying job at Chevron. First up, [...]
This time last year, it wasn’t clear what would happen to high speed rail in the state legislature. The vote to release the voter-approved bonds was coming, and HSR opponents in Sacramento and around the state were working hard to block it and stop the project. By late June, we began to worry that HSR [...]
Yesterday’s announcement of a coalition to make reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act was bound to be controversial. As it turns out, several dozen Democrats in the state legislature had been aware of some reform proposals and had already circulated a letter opposing rewriting of the law. Dated August 16, but released today, the [...]
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