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Align California’s Budget Surplus with Key Environmental Plans

By ClimatePlan | Jun 7, 2021 | No Comments

This is a major opportunity to ensure that California's spending is aligned with several key state plans currently created or being created.

Legislature Doesn’t Want to Release Voter-Approved Prop 1A Funds to High Speed Rail… Yet?

By Melanie Curry | Jun 4, 2021 | No Comments

Ongoing, behind-the scenes negotiations between Governor Newsom, the Assembly, and the Senate on the 2021 budget continue this week in a push to meet the budget-signing deadline of June 30.

Sign CalBike’s Petition to Eliminate Parking Requirements Near Transit

By Melanie Curry | Jun 1, 2021 | No Comments

A.B. 1401 must pass the Assembly this week, but there is still organized opposition to it.

Bikes parked in front of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento

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Legislative Update: A Quick Peek at the Current Status of Some Worthy Bills

By Melanie Curry | May 28, 2021 | No Comments

Next Friday, June 4, is the deadline for bills to be voted on by their house of origin.

Billboard on a truck reads "Fix the 2-lane death trap" of Highway 41

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Asm Patterson Blows Hot Air on “Highway Capacity Increase”

By Melanie Curry | May 25, 2021 | No Comments

As California is figuring out how to put the brakes on its habit of expanding highways everywhere, the pushback over long-planned "legacy" projects has begun.