Lawmakers Fault Newsom ‘Backfilling’ Climate Budget With Bond Funds

February 3, 2025
California lawmakers are raising concerns about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) proposal in the fiscal year 2025-26 budget to use billions of dollars from a new voter-approved climate change bond to pay for climate and clean energy programs that are normally supported by the General Fund and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). “One of my concerns is that it seems, at least to some extent, the governor is seeing [the climate bond] as a bit of a grab bag for backfilling...


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