Action Alert for September 2025
We are approaching a floor vote for our Climate Reality-endorsed bills and need your help to get them passed. Your calls to legislators are critically important, and it will only take a few minutes of your time. If you call and no one answers, feel free to leave a message (include your name and zip code). Please complete this action by Tuesday, September 9.
Here’s what to do:
1. Go to https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ and type in your address.
2. Click on your Assembly Member and Senator names- and it will take you to their website, where you can find the phone number for their Sacramento office. Be sure to call the Sacramento office so that your comment is counted.
3. At this point in the session, the Assembly bills are being voted upon in the Senate, and the Senate bills are being voted upon in the Assembly. For your information, the bills listed below are linked to the bill language, and we’ve included a brief description below.
FOR CALLS TO YOUR ASSEMBLY MEMBER:
My name is ____________________________ and I am requesting that Assembly Member _______________________________________ vote “yes” on the following bills:
SB 30, SB 427, SB 613, and SB 615.
FOR CALLS TO YOUR SENATOR:
My name is ____________________________ and I am requesting that Senator _______________________________________ vote “yes” on the following bills:
AB 28, AB 39, AB 44, AB 93, AB 368, AB 864, and AB 1448.
Thank you for your efforts toward a more sustainable future!
More information about our endorsed bills:
AB-28 (Schiavo) Solid waste landfills: subsurface temperatures. This bill establishes a series of reporting requirements for municipal solid waste landfill operators should the landfill exceed certain limits in order to prevent subsurface landfill fires like the one that has been burning at Chiquita Canyon Landfill for more than three years.
AB-39 (Zbur) General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act. This bill requires cities and counties to establish plans for decarbonization, including EV charging infrastructure, electrification of new and existing buildings, rooftop solar, and related electrical grid infrastructure needs.
AB-44 (Schultz) Energy: electrical demand forecasts. This bill requires the California Energy Commission (CEC), in consultation with utilities, to define and publicize methodologies for demand response and distributed energy resources to reduce the growth of peak electrical demand (and by extension reduce the growth of electricity rates).
AB-93 (Papan) Water resources: data centers. This bill requires data centers, when applying for a business license, to report their expected water use to their water supplier; when renewing a license, to report their water use to the appropriate city or county; and to self-certify that they will meet certain efficiency guidelines and best practices.
AB-368 (Ward) Energy: building standards: passive house standards. This bill requires the California Energy Commission (CEC) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of passive house building energy efficiency standards by climate zone and submit a report to the Legislature on its findings by July 1, 2028.
AB-864 (Ward) Hazardous waste: solar photovoltaic modules. This bill clarifies how to properly manage used solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and reduces barriers for solar panel recyclers to transport and manage these panels at the end of their useful life in order to facilitate recycling of solar panels at the end of their 20-30 year useful life.
AB-900 (Papan) Environmental protection: 30x30 goals: land conservation: stewardship. This bill requires the Natural Resources Agency (NRA) to develop strategies to reduce barriers and increase support for stewardship of conserved lands, which is critical — especially considering the uncertainty of federal land management — if these lands are genuinely to be conserved in perpetuity as they are meant to be under California’s goal of conserving 30% of land by 2030 (30x30). [Passed 9/4]
AB-1448 (Hart) Coastal resources: oil and gas development. This bill expands upon existing requirements for the transfer or modification of leases for oil and gas-related infrastructure upon tidelands and submerged lands within state waters associated with Pacific Outer Continental Shelf leases to include lease assignments, and requires a new coastal development permit (CDP) be obtained for the repair, reactivation, or maintenance of an oil pipeline or oil and gas facility that has been idled, inactive, or out of service for five or more years, as provided, among other provisions.
SB-30 (Cortese) Diesel-powered on-track equipment: decommissioning: resale and transfer restrictions. This bill prohibits a public entity that owns diesel-powered on-track equipment from selling, donating, or otherwise transferring ownership of that equipment for continued use after the public entity decommissions the equipment, except in certain circumstances.
SB-31 (McNerney) Water quality: recycled water. This bill clarifies that the use of recycled water is authorized in various applications and under specified circumstance, making it easier to safely use recycled water in outdoor irrigation at homes, businesses, parks, and gold courses. [PASSED 9/4]
SB-427 (Blakespear and Stern) Habitat Conservation Fund. This bill extends the sunset of the Habitat Conservation Fund (HCF) from 2030 to 2035.
SB-613 (Stern) Methane emissions: petroleum and natural gas producing low methane emissions. This bill requires battery suppliers to ensure the responsible end-of-life management of an EV battery (which are primarily lithium-ion batteries), including fully funding the cost of collection of an EV battery for which they are responsible.
SB-615 (Allen) Vehicle traction batteries. This bill requires state agencies to prioritize strategies to reduce methane emissions from imported petroleum and natural gas and requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to encourage procurement of certified natural gas producing low methane emissions.