Important Climate Legislation is Signed! There is Still Time to Act!
Important Climate legislation is signed, but there is still time to act on remaining bills!
GOOD NEWS! Governor Newsom Signed Make Polluters Pay and More! (Sharing from Physicians for Social Responsibility Eblast)
Wednesday, Governor Newsom signed three important bills into law allowing local communities to block construction of new oil and gas wells in their communities, to increase oil industry requirements to plug and clean up idle oil and gas wells, and prohibiting the operation of oil and gas wells located in Inglewood.
AB 1866 (Hart) Oil and gas: idle wells: Plugging Idle Oil Wells
AB 3233 (Addis) Oil and gas: operations: restrictions: local authority
AB 2716 (Bryan) Baldwin Hills Oil Field plugging low production wells/fines
He also signed SB 1221 that will enable up to 30 neighborhoods slated for expensive fossil fuel pipeline projects to have the opportunity to opt for free electrification upgrades instead.
THANK YOU to all of you who helped to make this happen!
Here are some more updates!
Signed
SB 1053 (Allen, Blakespear) Bans plastic bags at stores
AB 1042 (Bauer-Kahan) Pesticides: Regulate seeds treated with pesticides
AB 1465 (Wicks) Non-vehicular air pollution: civil penalties
SB 1304 (Limón) Underground injection control: aquifer exemption
Vetoed
AB 1992 (Boerner) Coastal resources: Blue/Teal Carbon Demonstration Projects
AB 2214 (Bauer-Kahan) Ocean Protection Council: microplastics
AB 2401 (Ting) Clean Cars 4 All Program
LEARN MORE about these bills: go to https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/ and type the letters and numbers into the Quick Bill Search.
ACTION
- Thank the Governor for signing the bills above and urge him to keep his word—”The health and strength of our communities always comes first!”—and to sign the rest.
- WE NEED as many climate, health and energy professionals and advocates as possible to EMAIL the Governor THIS WEEK.
EMAIL Governor Newsom and ask him to SIGN, click here
1. Select Legislation Issues/Concerns.
2. Select PRO
3. In the message box, list the bills that you would like the Governor to sign (include the numbers, i.e. AB1866). You can write your own message or copy and paste the message below.
4. Click NEXT to complete the form and pat yourself on the back for being an outstanding environmental advocate!!!
AB2513 (Pellerin) Health Warning Labels on Gas Stoves
SB 1374 (Becker) Restore Solar for Schools and Renters
SB 960 (Wiener) Transportation: planning: transit priority projects: multi-modal options
SB 1006 (Padilla) Electricity: grid-enhancing technologies
SB 1374 (Becker) Net energy metering
THANK YOU for taking action!
This content is shared from Physicians for Social Responsibility E blast 9-26-24
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