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California Senate Judiciary Committee Vote on Climate Superfund Bill Postponed As Momentum Builds [1]
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Date: 2025-04-30
SACRAMENTO – On April 29, Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-Morro Bay) announced that she decided to postpone the vote on the Climate Superfund Act in the Senate Judiciary Commitee to “allow more time for meaningful conversations with stakeholders and will continue to push this policy forward.”
The Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act would require the largest fossil fuel corporations to pay for the climate devastation they have contributed to across California in proportion to their fossil fuel emissions from 1990 through 2024.
“The overwhelming outpouring of support from labor groups, environmental champions, business owners, doctors, nurses, and regular people in support of AB 1243 clearly shows just how important holding Big Oil accountable and addressing climate change is for California,” said Addis in a statement after a press conference.
“The climate crisis is an environmental, existential and financial crisis that must be addressed. Californians have sacrificed enough by subsidizing big oil. It is time for the polluters to pay,” she stated.
“We know given recent federal actions, the state budget may experience deficits. AB 1243 provides a material way to address these issues,” she concluded.
Senator Caroline Menjivar (D- San Fernando Valley) and Assemblymember Addis introduced SB 684, the Senate version, and AB 1243, the Assembly version, on Feb. 21, 2025. This bill is an urgency measure that is not subject to the same deadlines as normal bills.
The Assembly version of the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act passed out of its first California Assembly Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, in a 9-4 vote on the day before Earth Day. On April 2, the Senate version of the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act, SB 684, passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee in a 5-3 vote. The bill was set for the first hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 22, but it too was cancelled at the request of the author.
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