Highlights from the 2022 California Legislative Session
Last week marked the end of this year’s legislative session in California. CALPIRG helped pass several bills that will make lives better for everyone who calls our state home.
Global warming solutions
A livable climate and a healthy future are possible if we work together to eliminate the pollution and practices warming our planet.
To avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, from more powerful hurricanes to increased flooding and worsening wildfires, we need to work together to eliminate the pollution and practices warming our planet. That means taking collective action to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, transitioning to an electric vehicle future, and powering our lives with clean, renewable energy. And we can all do more to use less energy, and use it more efficiently. Fortunately, global warming solutions are all around us — we just need to use them.
The Latest on Global warming solutions
Updated 2022 hurricane season coverage: Data, resources and interview opportunities
Statement: New bill could expedite projects that would pollute America
Updates
Senate formally aligns U.S. with international effort to phase out potent greenhouse gas
Businesses adapt to California food waste law
Sun Valley community members highlight the impact of removing I-25 widening from state’s transportation plan
What You Can Do
Tell the U.S. Postal Service: We should be investing in clean electric vehicles, not dirty diesel ones
Featured Resources
Electric School Buses and the Grid
Destination: Zero Carbon
Clean Heat rulemaking comment to the PUC
Congress: Protect the public from gas stove pollution
Did you know?
In the five minutes it takes to fill your gas tank, the U.S. government will give away over $190,000 in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry
What We're Doing
Our tax dollars shouldn't be propping up an industry that's contributing to the climate crisis. We're calling on Congress to end these subsidies.
The Latest
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Denver region approves removal of I-25 widening project from transportation plan
In a final step, Denver's regional planning body approved the removal of the I-25 Central widening project from its transportation plan, following a similar action by the Colorado Department of Transportation last week.
California just became the first state to eliminate gas subsidies for new homes
The California Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to end gas line subsidies for new homes, a move expected to save Californians $160 million annually.
Victory: CDOT removes I-25 widening from construction plans, replaces with over $100 million in transit, safety improvements
Transportation advocates and neighborhood leaders gathered in Denver’s Sun Valley neighborhood on Thursday to celebrate the removal of a massive highway widening project in their backyard along Interstate-25.
2022 heat wave/energy efficiency coverage: data, resources and interview opportunities
New report spotlights M-83 expansion among national U.S. highway boondoggles
Maryland PIRG Foundation and Frontier Group released a new report on Thursday that exposes highway boondoggles across the country that, if completed, would not only waste billions of dollars but also worsen climate change, harm air quality and deepen our country’s harmful dependency on cars.
Team
Casale
Matt
Casale
Director, Environment Campaigns, PIRG
Domenitz
Janet
Domenitz
Executive Director, MASSPIRG
Katz
Danny
Katz
Executive Director, CoPIRG
Engstrom
Jenn
Engstrom
State Director, CALPIRG
Rakov
Susan
Rakov
Managing Director, Frontier Group; Senior Vice President, The Public Interest Network