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Bold: priority. Green: support. Red: oppose. Ask Governor Newsom to sign the green bills and veto the red bills by 9/30/2024.
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Reigning in the Fossil Fuel Industry
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AB 2716 (Bryan) Oil and gas low-production wells Baldwin Hills Conservancy Equitable Community Repair and Reinvestment Account.This bill will increase accountability in the oil & gas industry by imposing a monthly fee of $10,000 on oil wells producing less than 15 barrels per day and are located in designated areas within Los Angeles County.
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AB 3233 (Addis) Oil and gas operations restrictions local authorityAB 3233 would protect the right of local governments to regulate and phase out oil and gas operations in their jurisdictions, and it will confirm that the state’s oil and gas supervisor must prioritize the health and safety of Californians and protect the environment and climate as the state moves toward a cleaner and sustainable future.
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AB 1866 (Hart) Oil and gas idle wells.AB 1866 bill will help hold oil companies accountable for their legal and financial cleanup obligations of their dangerous idle oil wells, and help transition workers out of a declining industry by creating plugging and remediation jobs.
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Reducing Toxics and Pesticides Exposure
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AB 1042 (Bauer-Kahan) Pesticide treated seed labeling.This bill would improve pesticide-treated seed labels, providing key information to better enable
farmers to compare seed treatment products and reduce unnecessary, harmful, and often costly chemical inputs.
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AB 1864 (Connolly, Addis) Pesticides agricultural use near schoolsites notification and reporting.AB 1864 will address the issues that prevent the Department of Pesticide Regulation's schools regulation from working as intended to protect all children in California from pesticide drift while at school.
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AB 2515 (Papan) Menstrual products perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Prohibits, as specified, a person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale a menstrual product that contains regulated perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as defined.
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AB 2552 (Friedman) Pesticides: first-generation anticoagulant rodenticidesExpands the existing prohibition on the use of anticoagulant rodenticides to include a prohibition
on the use of the first-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (FGARs) chlorophacinone and
warfarin, and imposes civil penalties on the unlawful use of FGARs and second-generation
anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs).
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SB 615 (Allen, Min) Vehicle traction batteriesThis bill requires vehicle traction battery suppliers to ensure the responsible end-of-life management of a vehicle traction battery; report specified information about the vehicle traction batteries to the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC); and, fully fund the costs of the collection of a battery for which they are required to ensure end-of-life (EOL) management. Requires DTSC, no later than July 1, 2028, to adopt regulations to implement this bill.
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SB 1066 (Blakespear) Hazardous waste: marine flares: producer responsibilityThis bill establishes the Marine Flare Manufacturer Responsibility Act of 2024; requires on and after January 1, 2026, a manufacturer, as defined, that sells, offers for sale, imports, or distributes a covered product, as defined, in the state to submit to the Department of Toxic Substances (DTSC) a manufacturer responsibility plan (MRP) for approval by DTSC; requires manufacturers to implement their approved MRP and to annually submit a publicly available report, as specified, on or before March 1; and, establishes the Marine Flare Recovery Fund.
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Promoting Climate Change Mitigation and Resilience
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AB 2513 (Pellerin) Gas stoves and ranges warning label.AB 2513 will require gas stoves in California to be sold with a warning label about the health risks associated with gas cooking.
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AB 2684 (Bryan) Safety element extreme heat.This bill would help protect communities from extreme heat by requiring local governments to address extreme heat in their general planning processes.
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Furthering Clean Energy and Clean Transportation
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SB 59 (Skinner) Battery electric vehicles bidirectional capabilityThis bill would aid in grid reliability by authorizing CARB to require that new EVs sold in California are capable of bidirectional charging so that EV batteries have the ability to power homes or other facilities when electricity demand is at its peak and prices are high.
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SB 1420 (Caballero, Archuleta, Dodd, Newman) Hydrogen production facilities certification and environmental review.SB 1420 would backtrack California's commitment to clean, renewable energy by streamlining the permitting of combustion-based “gray” hydrogen projects and the use of fossil fuel-derived feedstocks, municipal solid waste, and livestock gas in hydrogen production.
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SB 1374 (Becker) Net energy metering.SB 1374 will restore the benefits of roof top solar for schools, farms, and multi-family homes, by allowing them to share in the cost savings from the solar energy they are producing.
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SB 960 (Wiener) Transportation planning complete streets facilities transit priority facilities.
SB 960 would improve road safety and strengthen requirements that state-owned surface streets comfortably accommodate all road users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, and those using public transit.
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AB 2292 (Petrie-Norris) Electrical transmission facilities: certificates of public convenience and necessityThis bill repeals the requirement that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) consider alternatives to prospective transmission projects before issuing a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) approval.
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Defending Environmental Review and Protecting Natural Resources
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AB 2851 (Bonta) Metal shredding facilities fence-line air quality monitoring.This bill will provide transparency and precaution around the environmental impacts metal shredding facilities have on frontline communities by requiring all metal shredding facilities in California to install a fence line air monitoring system along with a notification system to neighboring communities.
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AB 460 (Bauer-Kahan) State Water Resources Control Board water rights and usage civil penalties.AB 460 would increase the State Water Resources Control Board’s ability to enforce California’s water laws by raising the fines for unlawful diversion and use of water.
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SB 366 (Caballero) The California Water Plan long-term supply targets.SB 366 would replace the existing California Water Plan with new water supply targets that ignore the need for water to remain in California’s rivers to protect native fish and wildlife, environmental justice communities, Tribes, and the fishing community that depend on healthy rivers.
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AB 1889 (Friedman) Conservation element wildlife and habitat connectivity.AB 1889 would help protect California wildlife and advance our state's 30x30 goals by requiring local governments to consider wildlife connectivity in the conservation element of their general plan.
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SB 1304 (Limón) Underground injection control: aquifer exemptionThis bill modifies the state process for submission of a Class II Underground Injection Control (UIC) program aquifer exemption proposal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), including requiring the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to determine in a public meeting whether a proposed aquifer exemption merits consideration, instituting certain public notice and comment requirements, and requiring an analysis of all conduits, among other provisions.
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Cutting Waste
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SB 1053 (Blakespear, Allen) Solid waste recycled paper bags standards carryout bag prohibitionSB 1053 would reduce consumer waste by eliminating single-use “pre-checkout” bags, such as produce bags, in grocery stores and requiring recycled paper bags and reusable grocery bags to be made from more sustainable materials.
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AB 2346 (Lee) Organic waste reduction regulations: procurement of recovered organic waste productsAuthorizing local jurisdictions to invest in specified activities related to organic materials recycling in lieu of procuring recovered organics, expanding the types of products that are eligible for procurement credit, and making other changes to the calculations used to establish procurement credits and targets.
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SB 707 (Newman) Responsible Textile Recovery ActThis bill establishes the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, which creates an extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for stewardship of waste textiles under the oversight of the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle).
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SB 1143 (Allen) Paint products: stewardship programThis bill makes changes to the state’s paint product stewardship program to expand the number of products covered in the program by January 1, 2028 at the latest and to require manufacturers of paint products to review their stewardship plan and submit any amendments to CalRecycle for review on a five year basis.
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