Oil lobby saturates another bill on California’s climate change

Ambitious proposal that would require fossil pollutants to pay for air -conditioning disasters caused by greenhouse gases that emit Seems to have stopped Before the strong opposition from the same fossil fuels pollutants.

Calm Alejandro Lazo explains a bill from the Assembly Article Dawn Adis It will require multinational oil and gas companies to pay for emissions from. “The extraction, production, refining, sale or combustion … of fossil fuelsOr other petroleum products such as oil and gas. Although it is not clear how much these companies will pay, the money will be allocated to finance disaster preparation and climate efforts, including evacuation planning, the construction of climate communities that electrify school buses and more.

• AdisDemocrat from San Luis Obyspo: “Petrol caused the climate crisis, to a large extent … They lied to it because they caused the damage and it is time for them to come to the table and create more accessible accessibility for the people who have hurt themselves.”

But despite the wild fires of Los Angeles County in January Mobilize account supportersThe measure settled idle after the clearing of its last hearing of the committee in April. The same month, another bill that would allow victims of fires and other climate disasters to judge oil companies for damage died in the legislatureS

Oil and gas companies lobbied strongly against the two proposals. Jim Stanley, a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association, said that the ADIS bill and his measure of twins in the Senate are “deluded” and punish companies, “for providing a legal product that is critical of our country’s economy.”

As the bill includes emergency provisions, it is released from certain legislative terms, including today’s original production period (more for the one below). The measure sits in front of the legislature as a government Gavin Newo and offers Redirect the money from the remarkable program and the California commercial program To pay for CAL fire operations and the high -speed rail project.

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In order to keep the bills alive for this session, state legislators have to this day to advance the bills through the house where they were introduced. For some bills related to labor theft and salaries, it was a mixed bag this week:

• Penalties for salary theft: Another bill to hold employers who make responsibility for salary theft has passed through the Assembly on Tuesday. The proposal will require state agencies to refuse licenses or permits to renew employers who have Unpaid claims for salary theftS Although most Democrats (and two Republicans) approved the measure, a member of the Assembly Anamari Avila Farias Concord was the only Democrat to vote against, along with six other Republicans.

• Workers’ rights are TRYING: Senate on Monday approved a bill that will expand and make a permanent Employee Training Program on labor rights and workplace protection. The measure passed along party lines, with all 10 Republicans voted against – although two Democrats abstained from voting, which is the same as the vote does notS

California college safety network should expire in late June, leaving many campuses – especially in the bay area – Counting with difficult measures to reduce costswrite Desmond and Lylah Schmedel-Permanna on Calmatters’ College journalism networkS

Since 2018, most community college regions have begun to receive gradual corrections to living costs to help pay increasing costs for maintaining buildings, employee benefits and other expenses.

But these adjustments will be completed on June 30 – and without it the areas must find other ways to close their budget gaps. Some of them already feel the pressing: Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, for example, faces $ 5.9 million and said it would reduce 5% of its course offers and require freezing for vacancies.

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Despite the voters in November, rejecting a measure that would end forced prison work, one state legislator is pushing two bills to raise wages for workers behind bars, including prisoners. Calmatters Joe Garcia And the video strategy director Robert Miex has a video segment on the proposals As part of our partnership with PBS Socal. Watch it hereS

And check out another video from CalMatters’ Levags and Robert about how the one of President Donald Trump Tariff policies are already slowing the load in the ports of California. Watch it hereS

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