I’m overjoyed, friend: Governor Newsom signed SB 253 and SB 261 into law today!
SB 253, which requires the largest corporations to measure and publicly disclose their direct and indirect pollution (all of it!), will have global impacts in our fight to reduce pollution.
It is the biggest climate bill in the country in 2023 — other countries and the White House have reached out to us in the last few months encouraging us in this fight and sharing how important this policy is for them to leverage for corporate climate accountability.
And it would not have passed without EnviroVoters!
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This nearly three-year-long fight is a story about building power together over years to achieve progress that will have international impacts. It’s taken so much to get to this point…
We launched an accountability campaign after the bill got stuck in the Senate in 2021 to ensure it passed through the Senate in 2022.
We broadened our cosponsor group and built influential business support after the bill failed by one vote on the Assembly floor in 2022. Ceres and Greenlining joined as cosponsors, and we got companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Ikea on board over the next year to combat opposition messaging.
We organized the environmental movement behind it. We got every major environmental group to support the bill (no easy task) and led weekly strategy calls with our cosponsors, including stalwarts Sunrise Bay Area and Carbon Accountable.
The new Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas supported these efforts. Speaker Rivas showed vision and courage taking on the biggest polluters in the state and not letting 253 fail in the Assembly.
We worked to make sure this policy effort was visible and in the public debate by engaging the media and shaping the public narrative.
And we had YOU, friend. Legislators knew the public was behind SB 253 because you were. You made over 500 phone calls and sent 4,000 emails to your elected officials in support of SB 253, in addition to thousands of petition signatures and countless office meetings and conversations with your representatives.
