Hi friend,

Coming off a landmark year for climate action in 2022, California’s leaders had a lot to live up to in 2023.

The state had some monumental wins last year, namely passing the world-changing Climate Corporate Leadership and Accountability Act (SB 253) and the Climate Financial Risk Disclosure Act (SB 261). Unfortunately, this historic progress was undercut with some devastating anti-environmental actions and policies.

Today is the official release of our annual California Environmental Scorecard, and EnviroVoters has assigned California a B grade for taking one step backward for every two steps forward in 2023.

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Don’t forget, friend: Today at 10:00 a.m., I will be joined by our five Climate Action Caucus champions for a special Scorecard Release Facebook Live event — follow us on Facebook @envirovoters to watch >> [link removed]

Friend, for over 50 years, EnviroVoters has been releasing a California Environmental Scorecard, which grades every single state legislator and the Governor on their environmental actions from the past year. (Read how we calculate scores here.)

The Scorecard is a powerful educational resource for transparency and accountability. To calculate California’s score, we tracked the outcome of 61 total environmental bills that were introduced in 2023.

And you can look up legislators to see how they fared and whether they accepted oil money — 52% of legislators did, an exciting decrease from 2022’s 63%, but still far too many.

The climate crisis is exponentially increasing and our action has to match that. Our representatives in Sacramento have the power to create the global roadmap to solve the climate crisis and advance justice.

Just look at the worldwide impact of SB 253, our sponsored bill that sets a new standard for corporate climate accountability and transparency. Other countries want to take California’s lead to pass something similar in their government!

Yet despite major legislative wins and a groundbreaking regulatory triumph, our leaders took some key anti-environmental actions, including making billions in cuts to the climate budget, failing to pass dozens of key bills into law, and keeping three fossil gas plants running.

The last two years have shown that California has the potential to be a global leader on climate, but we can’t be taking steps backward. Every year must be a huge year on climate justice, progress, and action, and we must hold our leaders accountable to acting with the urgency and the boldness this crisis deserves.

Thank you for taking advantage of this critical resource.

Mary Creasman
Chief Executive Officer
California Environmental Voters





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