Final California Budget Deal Cuts Lawmakers’ Clean Energy, GHG Funding

California’s final fiscal year 2024-25 budget deal between Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and state lawmakers cuts funding from a range of climate and clean energy programs that lawmakers had approved in budget legislation in an effort to close an estimated $45 billion budget deficit, prompting significant concerns from environmentalists. “Overall, it's a pretty bleak outlook for climate and clean energy given the size of the deficit,” one climate organization source says. The source was “very disappointed” by major cuts to...