Protecting California's environment through state legislation, administrative lobbying, and ballot measures since 1965.
Sacramento, CA
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Did you know that your garden can make a huge difference for wildlife? October is Leave the Leaves month with @nationalwildlife 🍂
#CertifiedWildlifeHabitat #GardenforWildlife
We’re so excited to announce our new partnership with the Certified Wildlife Habitat program
through @NWF !
Certification fee goes to support wildlife in our beautiful state of California!
 Learn more here: nwf.org/Native-Plant-Habitat…
#CertifiedWildlifeHabitat, #GardenforWildlife
Contact Gov Newsom – ask him to sign SB 954 into law to protect our communities. Visit gov.ca.gov/contact/, select “legislation " from the drop-down menu, and follow the steps to leave a comment.
SB 954 Passes the Assembly! Now on to the Senate! Please contact your state Senator and ask them to vote YES on SB 954! findyourrep.legislature.ca.g…
PCL's Capital Insider for August 25, 2026
End-of-Session Legislative Update - Without fail, the last two weeks of the legislative session are always chaotic.
Read more at: pcl.org/pcls-capital-insider…
Planning and Conservation League retweeted
“Educators and students deserve to live and learn in healthy communities. Prop 45 is a Trump-like attack on our environmental safeguards, limits community input on projects, and allows corporate developers to take dangerous short cuts on polluting projects. We urge Californians to vote no on Prop 45.” Jeff Freitas, President of @CFTunion #NoOn45CA
PCL's Capital Insider for July 2026
Read the latest on SB 954.
pcl.org/pcls-capital-insider…
Planning and Conservation League retweeted
In Southwest Fresno, residents have fought the City’s long-standing practice of putting heavy industrial businesses in their neighborhoods for decades.
Pastor B.T. Lewis shares why environmental review and community engagement is so important when it comes to development.
Prop 45 Is a Taxpayer Trap. Every Public Official Needs to Understand Why.
Prop 45 dramatically shifts the balance of power away from cities and communities, and could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to implement.
pcl.org/prop45_local_governm…
PCL's June Capital Insider is online now at: pcl.org/pcls-capital-insider…
Read about our work to reform 2008's SB 375 in this year's SB 1087.
PCL’s Capital Insider – April 2026
By most metrics, April was quite a successful month for California environmental policy. Read more at...
pcl.org/pcls-capital-insider…
Watch the Planning and Conservation League’s 2026 California Environmental Assembly sessions and Help Shape Our Future!
Watch on PCL's Website Now at: pcl.org/events/2026-environm…
Trump has made climate denial and fossil fuel dependence U.S. policy. Repealing the Endangerment Finding harms Californians facing extreme and intensifying weather, wildfires, droughts, and flooding.
Protect CA’s Climate Leadership – Support PCL! pcl.org/give
Check out our most recent Capitol Insider – "2025’s Legislative Recap: Not an “Abundance” of Transparency"
pcl.org/pcls-capital-insider…
Last Thursday, Oct. 2, an explosive fire at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery highlighted the danger of weakening California’s environmental safeguards. PCL continues to work with partners to defend communities from the ongoing threat of industrial pollution.
ALT Image depicts a flare and smoke from a separate refinery incident, which occurred in 2024.
This year's session ended without cleanup to #SB131, a bill that allows heavy industry to be built near homes & schools and on sensitive habitat without CEQA review. Asm. Connolly and 20+ coauthors have introduced AB 1083 to push for cleanup, which will be a PCL priority in 2026.
Planning and Conservation League retweeted
SB 427 was just approved by the legislature, and now goes to the Governor for consideration. This bill pushes the sunset date from July 1, 2030, to July 1, 2035, for the Habitat Conservation Fund (HCF), which was established under Proposition 117, the California Wildlife Protection Act passed by voters in June 1990.
State budgetary pressures have led lawmakers to consider discontinuing the fund. Last year, the Governor initially recommended ending the General Fund transfers to the HCF six years early, but I fought this proposal and helped keep the fund intact.
This bill is co-sponsored by @AudubonCA, @NWF, and the @PCLeague.
