8/21/2024 | In the 2024 Supplemental Budget that the state Legislature passed this year, $1.3 billion came from additional CCA revenue generated through cap-and-trade auctions. In our second year of budget analysis and using updated methodology that better distinguishes the intent behind budget provisos, we found that only 14.6% of the additional CCA revenue is directed to Vulnerable Populations within Overburdened Communities. This falls well short of the 35% requirement and 40% goal established in the CCA. The responsibility now falls on state agencies to rectify the legislature’s shortcomings and prioritize the allocation of benefits to Overburdened Communities.
Today, our coalition is launching the 2024 Frontline Report on HEAL Progress, which assesses agency implementation of the Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act, a landmark bill that defines “environmental justice” in state law and expands opportunities for community collaborative governance (co-governance)….
Communities of color, Indigenous peoples, and people with lower incomes are on the frontlines of climate and environmental change.
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