The California Legislature reconvenes with record diversity, but with several key questions and many significant challenges.
By the afternoon, Senate and Assembly staff reported that just two new measures had been introduced in each house. With a bill introduction deadline of Feb. 17, committee hearings and votes for most proposals are still months away.
to address climate change by tackling how transportation, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California, contributes to the problem. “With the type of surplus we had last year,” nearly $50 billion that was mostly directed to one-time expenditures over the next several years, Skinner said, “we have the space right now to make some adjustments to those if necessary.”
“This session should be about a lot of oversight,” she said. “We still have ambitious packages, but we’re all very conscious of the price tags.”While Newsom continues to go after the oil industry — his officehighlighting “Big Oil’s top lies” — there have been no significant developments on his “price gouging penalty” proposal since it was formally introduced a month ago.
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