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California Climate Change Winners and Losers     

The Climate Tech Winners and Losers of the Senate's Permitting Bill - Heatmap News
Heatmap News
The Climate Tech Winners and Losers of the Senate's Permitting Bill ... California plug-in solar, and Europe's green steel champion.

Newsom's signing saga is over - POLITICO
Politico
... winners and losers of this year's legislative session. Winner: Wildfire policy advocates. Megafire Action, a wildfire policy organization, declared ...   

California Socially Responsible Investing     

California Endowment adds NYC Comptroller's RI chief to $4B portfolio - Markets Group
Markets Group
The organization has allocated $350 million to impact investing, including $150 million for mission-related investments spanning venture capital, ...

From Finance to Impact: How Environmentally and Socially Responsible Investors Drive ...
Wiley Online Library
The interest of academics in Integrated Reporting (IR) has shifted over the years from identifying the determinants of its adoption to the factors ...

How Environmentally and Socially Responsible Investors Drive Integrated Reporting ...
Wiley Online Library
Three types of investors are considered: the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) signatories, the investors with a long-term perspective and ...

California Geoengineering     

Geoengineering Watch on X: "Nonstop record heat in California while snow fell this week in ...
t.co / X
... made an early appearance in Arizona” (AccuWeather). “Early Season Snow in Arizona Mountains” (Weather Bug). “California faces weeks of scorching t…

California Climate Change and Satellites     

Governor Newsom announces new disaster intelligence satellites, opens modernized State ...
Governor of California - CA.gov
As Trump walks away from disaster preparedness and climate science, California is stepping up to take action now. With a potentially historic El ...

California gets a new eye in the sky to track planet-warming methane - Los Angeles Times
LA Times
A second satellite, launched Thursday, will double California's chances of detecting climate-changing methane releases.

Newsom announces satellite disaster intelligence upgrade, reopens California operations ce - KMPH
KMPH
State officials said the changes are aimed at strengthening California's ... climate change drives increasingly complex and destructive disasters, ...   

California Sustainability Investing     

California Waste Solutions Expands Global Environmental Investment With More Than Half ...
Morningstar
California Waste Solutions Expands Global Environmental Investment With More Than Half a Billion Dollars Proposed for Waste-to-Energy Project ...

LABC Sustainability Summit Marks 20th Anniversary of Historic Climate Legislation and New ...
Business Wire
Today, energy-efficient buildings are standard, renewable sources provide the lion's share of California's electricity and we're investing in power ...

LA County Jobs First Collaborative Releases "Legacy Blueprint" and Expands Leadership ...
Morningstar
... California Jobs First. Alongside the publication, the Collaborative formally inaugurated its expanded, 21-member Investment & Sustainability ...    

California Leadership Climate Change     

Can California handle the heat? - Politico
Politico
... climate action” and writing that the state continues to take “bold steps” to build resilience against climate change-driven heat. One of the steps ...

California Leads the Way: IUCN's Tracy Farrell Delivers Plenary at 2026 30x30 Partnership Summit
IUCN.org
Farrell: Subnational Leadership Is Global Leadership ... Facing severe problems due to climate change and losing flora and fauna diversity, the Samoa…

As Trump targets public lands, Governor Newsom expands free state parks access ...
Governor of California - CA.gov
Under Governor Newsom's leadership and in partnership with the Legislature, California ... climate change. Together, these bills will: ✓ Protect ...    

California Energy Storage     

California council reverses denial, approves giant battery site near beloved park
The Cool Down
Several large white battery storage containers with solar panels are arranged in a construction area. Photo Credit: iStock.

California Governor Newsom signs VPP and balcony solar bills, vetoes community solar legislation
Energy-Storage.News
SB 913 requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to create a valuation method for customer-owned battery energy storage systems (BESS) ...

California bets on home batteries to rein in power bills and lean less on gas plants - Yahoo
Yahoo
Home electricity rates at California's three major investor-owned utilities have climbed to roughly double the U.S. average. Battery storage is ...

California Green Bond Funds     

Prop 1: Authorizes California to Issue a $11.25 Billion Bond to Fund Affordable Housing
KQED
Adhiti Bandlamudi: And last election cycle, the housing bond lost out to the climate bond and won about school facilities. From then until now, WIC ...

The 2026-27 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions
Legislative Analyst's Office
The decrease is primarily associated with a year-over-year change in one-time Proposition 4 funding (the climate bond approved by voters in November ...

Supervisors Adopt Strategic Framework for Local Climate Resilience - Nevada County
Nevada County
... funding, including grant funding from the climate bond approved by California voters in November 2024. The Board's action followed two years of ... 

California Data Driven Decision Making     

California Governor Signs 3 Bills Targeting AI and Workplace Surveillance - Ogletree
Ogletree Deakins
... decision-making. California's AB 1883 bans AI-powered workplace surveillance tools that predict employees' emotional states or collect neural data ...

California Employers Will Soon Need to Say When AI Causes a Mass Layoff: 5 Steps to Prepare
Fisher Phillips LLP
A company that consolidates a support function after deploying a new platform is making a decision driven partly by technology and partly by cost.

New Requirements for California Employers Who Use AI in Employment Decisions - Duane Morris
Duane Morris
... statistics and other automated-decision systems used to make employment-based decisions. ... data used in making decisions about them. Senate Bill 951 ...

California Sector Based Decarbonization     

Bio-Based Chemicals Face Reality Check as Industry Pursues Decarbonization Goals
Plastics Today
The first route, direct biomanufacturing, converts renewable biomass into target chemicals through biological processes such as microbial ...  

California Microgrids     

“Triple Threat” Pumped Storage Hydro plus Solar, Storage and Biofuel Microgrids Supported ...
Microgrid Knowledge
... microgrids across Northern and Central California. Together, the projects represent more than $73 million in community microgrid investments. ​The ...

California signs law targeting billions still missing from PG&E wildfire payouts
The Cool Down
North Carolina food bank gets first solar microgrid, keeping freezers on when the grid fails. If another outage as widespread as Hurricane Helene's ...

Six Flags Magic Mountain energizes California's new largest carport - Solar Builder
Solar Builder
... microgrid facility. The installation's excess energy can be exported to the California grid through interconnection, or the park may use it during ...

California Carbon Capture Utilization Storage     

California's carbon storage plan hits constitutional bedrock - Daily Journal
Daily Journal
California's proposed framework for carbon sequestration projects seeks to prevent landowner holdouts through unitization but may require ...

California's 2026 Data Center Laws: What You Need to Know | Insights | Holland & Knight
Holland & Knight
using specific zero-carbon energy storage; relying on behind-the-meter ... Capture, Use and Storage Artificial Intelligence Artificial ...

California CDP Sustainability     

California SB 253: Five Emerging Priorities from CARB's Industry Listening Sessions
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
... California Air Resources Board (CARB) facilitated six industry ... CDP, existing corporate sustainability reports, mandatory insurance ...

California Community Health Risk Assessment     

Two Prosecutor-Backed Mental Health Laws Raise Questions over California's Shift toward ...
Davis Vanguard
... risk to the physical safety of another person” if treated in the community. ... risk assessment tool” intended to promote more consistent evaluations.

California Community Health Risks From Climate Change     

How can we measure health risks from oil and gas wells near housing?
UC Berkeley School of Public Health - University of California, Berkeley
... environmental toxins to the consequences of climate change. Over the next few months, we will introduce you to 12 researchers who are having a ...

California Bill Exempting Metal Shredders From Hazardous Waste Protections Becomes ...
Earthjustice
The state must do everything in its power to fulfill its obligation to protect public health and the environment from toxic hazards. ... climate change.

Letters to the Editor: Weakened fuel-economy standards will be harmful for our lungs and skies
LA Times
... climate change and health risks, especially for children. Two Southern California readers point to cleaner skies in Los Angeles as evidence of ...  

California Low Carbon Funds     

Groups File Opening Briefs in LCFS Biogas Lawsuit - Animal Legal Defense Fund
Animal Legal Defense Fund
CARB violated California law by allowing fossil fuel companies to buy fake LCFS offset credits from factory farms to claim lower climate emissions.

California illegally spurred “gold rush in cow manure,” lawsuit alleges - The New Lede
The New Lede
The California Department of Food and Agriculture found that dairy digester projects that the agency has helped fund reduce total methane emissions ...

California Renewable Energy Investments     

Governor Newsom signs legislation to accelerate California's fusion industry, announces ...
Governor of California - CA.gov
... energy in California by investing in the state's research hubs. The ... energy abundance and security, and help meet the nation's growing clean energy ...

Three Cheers for Two Clean Energy Victories for California - Legal Planet
Legal Planet
SB 1359, the Natural Gas Ratepayer Protection Act (Stern) as enacted will create greater transparency around gas utilities' investments, and provide a ...

Newsom signs laws to curb utility profits, boosting home power - Los Angeles Times
LA Times
... investment in the reliable and resilient energy system ... “Together, these three common sense clean energy bills will allow California ...

California Methane Emissions     

California gets a new eye in the sky to track planet-warming methane - Los Angeles Times
LA Times
In California, which is required to reduce methane emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, landfills are responsible for about 41% of methane ...

Tanager 2 Launch to Scale Up Carbon Mapper's Methane Impact | Morningstar
Morningstar
... California Satellite Methane Project (CalSMP) ... gas emissions reductions by making methane and carbon dioxide data accessible and actionable.

California illegally spurred “gold rush in cow manure,” lawsuit alleges - The New Lede
The New Lede
California regulators broke state environmental laws by allowing polluters to buy clean fuel credits from large farms that are extracting gas from ...

California Impact Investing     

At the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, Governor Newsom signs his final bill
Governor of California - CA.gov
At the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, Governor Newsom signs his final bill — investing in California's next generation of innovation ... impact reports: ...

California American Water Proudly Recognizes American Water Charitable Foundation ...
Morningstar
California American Water Proudly Recognizes American Water Charitable Foundation $10,000 State Strategic Impact Grant to Yolo Basin Foundation ...

US clean energy powers ahead - Infrastructure Investor
Infrastructure Investor
... California Public Employees' Retirement System's managing investment director, sustainable investments. “Probably if the IRA [Inflation Reduction ...