Environmental regulators in California are in tears these days. Late last month, the California Air Resources Board introduced new rules banning the sale of new gasoline vehicles in California beginning in 2035.
This week, the board directed the regulation to the state’s large rig fleet.
As CalMatters environmental reporter Nadia Lopez writes, California aims to phase out the use of medium and heavy trucks powered by fossil fuels. Deadline: 2040.
Transportation is the state’s largest source of global warming emissions, with trucks accounting for about a quarter of the nation’s tailpipe emissions. In addition, they are also a major source of smog and asthma-causing particulates, disproportionately suffocating the air in low-income areas of California.
California is proud to be the first to deploy an aggressive climate policy, the first in the world. That’s what truckers are worried about.
- Chris Shimoda, California Trucking Association: “We face some very big questions about the practicality of implementing this rule in practice.”
California is not lacking in aggressive climate policy. Today, Newsom says it will sign into law a series of bills that a press release called “some of the country’s most aggressive climate measures in its history.”
The signing ceremony in Solano County will be “powered by clean energy.”
Among the bills Newsom plans to sign are four climate and energy bills that he submitted to Congress in the final week of this year’s session.
- AB 1279 incorporates into state law existing policy goals to reach “carbon neutral” statewide by 2045.
- SB 1020 sets standards that state grids must reach before sourcing all electricity from renewable sources by 2045.
- SB 905 requires the Air Resources Board to develop regulations for projects that capture, reuse, and store carbon dioxide emissions.
- SB 1137 prohibits drilling of new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, nursing homes and hospitals, effectively banning activity from most development areas in the state.
You can monitor what Newsom has and has not signed on CalMatters’ update tracker.
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18 billboards outside Sacramento, California
Alabama calls on people outside the state to “embrace it all.” Ohio has ‘Find It Here’. Washington used to use “Say Wa”.
But on Thursday, Gov. Newsom rolled out a state tourism campaign of a very different kind. In seven states that have outright or mostly banned abortion, governors have borrowed 18 billboards touting California as a haven for reproductive health care.
- One billboard ad message: “Do you need an abortion? California is ready to help.”
The sign directs drivers in Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas to a new state website that contains information on how to find a provider in California. To do.
Side note: Temecula doesn’t appear to have a 19th billboard, but city council members proposed an abortion ban in the city of Riverside County on Tuesday.
These billboards are funded by the governor’s reelection committee, not by taxpayers. Newsom campaign spokesman Nathan Click said the total cost would be around $100,000.
Clearly, the governor isn’t particularly concerned about his chances of re-election. A statewide poll this week found he has a 27 percentage point lead over his Republican opponent, state Senator Brian Dahl.
The California press was as surprised as anyone when news of the billboard operation broke on Thursday. got an exclusive.
For Newsom, who has repeatedly sworn that he has no interest in running for public office, it’s another move to align with someone interested in running for public office.
The governor’s critics might call this a grandstand, but at least the governor only put up signs in other states, not humans.
Republican governor this week. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas sent immigrants from South America to the liberal enclaves of the north in an apparent effort to punish self-proclaimed “sanctuary” jurisdictions such as Massachusetts and Washington, DC. recognized for his achievements.
It may be a matter of time, but such buses and planes have not yet arrived in California. Newsom has called on US Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate his Republican counterparts for kidnapping, extortion and civil rights violations.
- Newsom: “Transporting a family member, including children, across state lines in disguise is clearly morally reprehensible, but it can also be illegal.”
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‘Amazing’ medical costs
From CalMatters Health Reporter Ana B. Ibara:
Health care advocates join Covered California’s board of directors on Thursday to reject Governor Newsom’s veto over a bill aimed at expanding financial support for people buying health insurance from the state’s market. expressed dissatisfaction.
On Tuesday, Newsom rejected a bill by Sacramento Senator Richard Pang. The bill would have required the state to spend approximately $304 million to reduce deductibles, copays, and other costs for people enrolled in covered California plans.
Some Californians who purchase the Standard plan may see their annual deductible increase by $1,000 in 2023, totaling $4,750. Mr. Pang’s bill should have helped reduce that cost, said Anthony Wright, his director of California executive Health Access, which sponsored the bill.
- Light: “These are staggering numbers…meaning those who need hospitalization will have to pay close to $5,000 before coverage begins.”
Under Covered California’s plans, deductibles apply only to hospital and skilled nursing facility admissions, not primary care or specialist visits, said James Scullary, a spokesman for Covered California. .
Pan’s bill would have directed states to withdraw $304 million currently sitting in a reserve fund created in case the federal government fails to renew enhanced premium subsidies. I guess. However, with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, these federal subsidies were pegged for another three years.
It also means that state subsidy reserves will no longer be used. In his veto message, Newsom said the aim was “admirable” but said the use of this new funding would be unsustainable in the long term.
- Newsom: “Rather, we need to set aside funds so that state-only premium subsidies are available again when we need them most.”
Still, advocates say that because California requires people to have insurance or faces tax penalties, the state is taking every available opportunity to improve coverage. He said it should be affordable.
Other health news: If there’s one advantage to weathering a pandemic, it’s preparing us for the next super-contagious disease, at least in theory. As Mallika Seshadri of CalMatters’ College Journalism Network explains, California universities are applying hard-learned lessons from COVID-19 to keep monkeypox under control on campus.
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deal and no deal
After the major railroad companies and the railroad union reached a tentative agreement on Thursday, the governor, the state’s major ports, and anyone who depends on goods shipped by rail (i.e., pretty much everyone) You can rest assured.
This avoids, at least for now, an economy-busting labor action that would lock up California’s already-shrinking supply chain.
At the last tally at the Port of Los Angeles, there are currently 28,000 containers waiting for trains, of which 16,000 have been on hold for more than nine days, the Long Beach Post reports.
The state of labor relations is not so cumbaya in Northern California. Negotiations between Kaiser his Permanente and its mental health workers resumed on Wednesday after nearly a month on the brink.
They broke almost immediately.
The health care giant is weighing proposals to increase staffing, reduce the number of cases for therapists and reduce the time patients wait for follow-up appointments, according to the National Union of Health Professionals, which represents Kaiser’s striking employees. refused to
In a statement, Kaiser said it proposed higher wages and fine-tuning labor rules, but said the union’s key demands were unrealistic.
- Kaiser Permanente: “The union did not offer any formal proposals to move away from its original position requiring therapists to spend less time seeing patients.”
Today is the 32nd day of the strike. The impasse has prevented Bay Area and Central Valley patients from making behavioral health appointments.
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