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ACTION ALERT:
August 28,
2012
Dear Urban Forestry Advocates,
We are in the final days of the Legislative Session, and two particular
bills we have been working on all year have shaped up to be quite
beneficial to urban forestry and urban greening through the investments
of AB 32 cap and trade auction revenues. One bill is an overall
framework for the long-term expenditure of the funds and another bill is
for “early investments” for FY 2012-13. This week, both of these
bills will be taken up on the Floor in the opposite house of their
original.
We ask that you please call your local Senators and
Assemblymembers to ask for their aye vote on these bills. Please
be conscientious of the fact that we need calls to go to the opposite house
than where the bill originated (i.e. you are calling Assembly members
about a Senate bill and vice versa).
Contact
information for your local Senators and Assembly members and summaries of
the bills/talking points are below. There are links to the full
text of the bills, if you are so inclined:
AB 1532 (Perez)
Although this is an Assembly Bill,
we need calls to go to your Senators, as the bill is
up on the Senate Floor
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http://senate.ca.gov/senatedistricts
AB
1532 by Speaker Pérez provides a strong framework to
advance the goals of California’s landmark law, the Global Warming
Solutions Act (AB 32), to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while
stimulating California’s economy, creating jobs, and optimizing multiple
benefits for all Californians.
AB 1532 establishes the long-term
framework (2013-2020) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
through investments in:
- Clean and efficient energy
- Sustainable development
- Local innovation projects (includes urban greening)
- Natural resources (includes urban greening)
SB1572 (Pavley)
Although this is a Senate Bill, we need calls to go to your Assembly members,
as the bill is up on the Assembly Floor - http://assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers
SB
1572 by Senator Pavley would establish an expenditure
plan for Fiscal Year
2012-13 for revenues not already allocated in this year’s
budget bill resulting from the California Air Resources Board’s (ARB) cap
& trade auction authorized under AB 32.
Specifically, SB 1572 will:
- Allocate 60% of the undesignated auction revenues
to provide cost relief to businesses regulated under cap & trade
for their greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction projects "that
maximize the use of private capital;”
- Allocate 10% of the undesignated
auction revenues to the Strategic Growth Council for implementation
of regional or local plans to reduce GHGs (includes urban greening)
- Allows the auction revenues paid by UCs and CSUs
for their allowances to be set aside to reimburse those UCs and CSUs
for their costs to reduce GHG; and
- Allows the auction revenues paid public water
suppliers for their allowances to be set aside to reimburse those
public agencies for their costs to reduce GHG.
If
you have any questions please feel free to contact me, and thanks for
your support!
Nancy Hughes
Executive Director
California Urban Forests Council
415-479-8733
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