Gov. Gavin Newsom announced new appointments for various state jobs Friday, including a new secretary of the California Department of Veterans Affairs.
The 1994 directive by President Bill Clinton was one of the first admissions by the executive branch that it was obligated to reduce overwhelming pollution
In this post, we provide a description and analysis of the Governor’s 2022-23 budget proposals to spend the additional revenues the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is expected to receive from last year’s governance and fiscal reform. Overall, we find that the proposals are consistent with the information the Legislature used as the basis for approving DTSC’s governance and fiscal reform. However, we recommend the Legislature continue to conduct oversight of the programmatic expansions being proposed and to revisit staffing levels in future years.