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- Featured Local Savings
- Here are all the climate and environment bills that California just passed
- Committee Releases FY24 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill
- Newsom and Democratic lawmakers remain divided on infrastructure plan
- O.J. Simpson’s death certificate confirms his cause of death, lawyer says
- Editorial: High electric bills threaten California’s clean future. This plan would help

"And let me say to the opposition for minority government to work in the interest of the people of Scotland also requires the opposition to act in good faith." Rishi Sunak sits down this Sunday with Trevor Phillips for a wide-ranging interview ahead of the local elections. Last year, Gov. Hochul announced $2.7 billion in spending to address climate impacts. Estimates for upgrading New York City’s sewer system stand at $100 billion, and a proposal to protect the city from flooding could cost more than $50 billion. The price tag for protecting Long Island is estimated to be at least $75 to $100 billion.
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This is the fifth individual appropriations bill House Republicans have passed, the Senate has failed to pick up one. The Legislature’s $311.7-billion spending plan unveiled Monday was crafted after 120 public hearings over the last six months. The legislative budget plan increases funding for education, child care, public transit and Medi-Cal over levels Newsom proposed in his revised budget in May.
Here are all the climate and environment bills that California just passed
It also reverses Newsom’s plan to spend $450 million from the Safety Net Reserve, an account created to shore up funding for programs such as CalWorks and Medi-Cal during a downturn. Conservationists are suing the Biden administration for failing to get Cliven Bundy’s cattle off of critical desert tortoise habitat on public lands in Nevada, and for allowing large solar farms to threaten tortoises too. You may recall that federal agents tried to round up Bundy’s illegally grazing cows in 2014, only to back off when threatened with armed confrontation by Bundy’s supporters, as Colton Lochhead notes in his story on the lawsuit for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Committee Releases FY24 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill
The iron flow batteries being tested by the publicly owned electric utility are a big deal, Canary Media’s Julian Spector writes — in part because they could help the utility meet its goal of reaching 100% clean energy by 2030. In other fire news, Alex explained how efforts to fight one of California’s largest fires this year were nearly derailed by a mixup of diesel fuel and gasoline. The Times’ Grace Toohey, meanwhile, wrote about the microgrid that kept the lights on in Del Norte County during that fire — although it was powered by diesel-fueled generators, not clean energy.
About $55 billion would go to expanding access to clean drinking water. Earlier in the week, on Oct. 24-25, a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved 17 bills that aim to support the deployment of nuclear energy and hydropower and bolster grid reliability, sending the bills to the full committee. And the proposed IRA rescissions "would result in unacceptable harm to clean energy and energy efficiency initiatives that lower energy costs and critical investments in rural America," the statement added. But the legislation would slash funding for the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, as well as the office overseeing carbon capture research and deployment. It also called to reduce money for the DOE's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, which was created and initially funded through the bipartisan infrastructure law of 2021.
Billions more would pay for infrastructure projects that could mitigate the impact of wildfires and other natural disasters, such as rehabilitating burned lands, burying power lines and fireproofing homes. It would also boost the pay of federal wildland firefighters to bring them to parity with state firefighters. About $110 billion would go to roads, bridges and other major surface transportation projects. Passenger rail gets $66 billion, public transit gets $39 billion, and safety programs for highways and pedestrian walkways get $11 billion.
House passes two-tiered stopgap bill to avert shutdown - Roll Call
House passes two-tiered stopgap bill to avert shutdown.
Posted: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
With the local elections less than a week away, deputy political editor Sam Coates explains why they matter and what they might tell us about the upcoming general election. That, combined with the decision to pause the prescription of new puberty blockers to under-18s at at Scotland's only gender clinic, resulted in the Greens announcing they would have a vote on the future of the power-sharing deal. The Greens were angered at the SNP-led administration's recent decision to ditch a key climate change target. Pressure has been building on the SNP leader after he tore up the power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens - prompting a no-confidence motion in his leadership and a threatened knife-edge vote.
Editorial: High electric bills threaten California’s clean future. This plan would help
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), whose office worked with that of Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) on several water provisions, says much of the funding will go to California projects. Rodgers said the bill could help double US hydropower production, bolstering grid reliability and increasing the supply of carbon-free power. But Pallone flagged comments from FERC and Biden administration officials asserting that the bill would exempt about 80% of commission-jurisdictional hydropower projects from licensing and threaten the recovery of fish populations.
These disasters are already taking a toll on the lives and livelihoods of New Yorkers. The state Senate has already passed NY HEAT, and the governor included key elements in her budget proposal, but the Assembly has failed to support it. Mary Creasman, chief executive of California Environmental Voters, said it’s clear that California needs accelerated permitting for clean energy projects and needs to protect its rich biodiversity. Newsom’s infrastructure plan could speed up construction of bridges, broadband, water projects and highway maintenance and save the state millions. Although the Congressional Budget Act sets an April 15 target date for the budget resolution, Congress has seldom met that deadline. The budget resolution, in fact, has been late for 30 of the past 49 fiscal years, counting fiscal 2024.
A farmer in California’s Imperial Valley suffered another courtroom defeat in his quest to shift control of the region’s Colorado River water rights — the largest such rights in the West — from the Imperial Irrigation District to landowning growers such as himself. And near the California-Oregon border, the federal government shouldn’t have sent any water to farms in the Klamath Basin last year, a judge has ruled, to better protect fish and tribal rights. This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a newsletter about climate change and the environment. He proposes also to reverse one of Trump’s most egregious environmental assaults, the opening of the treasured Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.
Furthermore, it allocates essential funding for the ongoing enhancement of our nuclear weapons stockpile and infrastructure while scrapping billions in wasteful funding for unrelated Green New Deal policies. 4394, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2024, which bolsters funding for national security, energy security, and economic competitiveness while curbing the excessive spending of Extreme Democrats. Jennifer Haberkorn covers Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She has reported from Washington since 2005, spending much of that time roaming the halls of the U.S. Before arriving at The Times, Haberkorn spent eight years at Politico writing about the 2010 healthcare law, a story that took her to Congress, the states, healthcare clinics and courtrooms around the country.

Over the course of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles residents and businesses accumulated $827 million in unpaid bills, Garcetti said. The "Help Is On The Way" program began providing $275 million in automatic credits to unpaid residential and commercial Department of Water and Power customers at the start of the year, and those credits will be completed by the end of the month. The Conservatives ratified their Rwanda policy into law, but voters here weren't hugely enthused by that either, with one member of the audience tonight proclaiming they care much more about housing and the environment. But five years on, polling by Sky News found that since then, the number of people saying they "almost never" trust the British government to place the needs of the nation above the interests of their own party has nearly doubled - from 26% to 49%. The 2 May local elections will see more than 2,600 seats at stake across 107 English councils. Now, as leader of a minority government, his fate may be hanging on just one vote - that of a former SNP leadership rival.

The White House says California should expect $25.3 billion for highways and $4.2 billion for bridge replacement and repairs over five years. The state can also bid for money from the $28.5-billion investment fund for economically significant bridges and other physical projects. The text of the bill, before the adoption of amendments in full committee, is here.