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California introduces bill to reevaluate rooftop solar net metering. Assemblymember Laura Friedman introduces a bill that would require the California Public Utilities Commission to consider the costs and benefits of rooftop solar and its non-energy benefits when designing net metering rates.
California Assemblymember Laura Friedman has introduced AB 2256, which would require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to fully consider the costs and benefits of rooftop solar when revisiting its net energy metering (NEM) tariff.
The bill would require CPUC to consider the total benefits of rooftop solar, including improved local air and water quality, avoided land use impacts, and any associated system cost benefits.
For at least a decade, California has tried to restrict the use of rat poison so it stops killing all manner of creatures besides rats. So far, it hasn’t worked.
One of nature’s most powerful and elusive predators would be reintroduced into the wild in California under a new bill filed in the State Assembly.
For centuries before western settlers arrived – and before the Marvel Cinematic Universe – wolverines were a critical part of California’s ecosystem. Today, they are extremely rare.
One of nature’s most powerful and elusive predators would be reintroduced into the wild in California under a new bill filed in the State Assembly.
For centuries before western settlers arrived – and before the Marvel Cinematic Universe – wolverines were a critical part of California’s ecosystem. Today, they are extremely rare.
Sacramento, CA –The United States Supreme Court laid waste to America’s wetlands last year. California’s Assembly is set to do something about it. Assemblymember Laura Friedman (D-Burbank) has introduced Assembly Bill 2875 to blunt the damage the Supreme Court has done–at least in California.
Sacramento, CA –California’s mountains were once teeming with wolverines, a carnivorous cousin to minks and badgers. Fur trapping, hunting, and poisoning saw their numbers collapse and they largely disappeared from the state a century ago.
Sacramento, CA – While it has long been known that oil drilling can cause cancer, respiratory illnesses and birth defects, holding oil drillers liable for the illnesses caused by their drilling in safety zones (established as 3,200 feet within areas where people live, work, or attend school) if the company did not use the best technologies to control the pollution has long bee