2023 Assembly Information for Registrants

The information provided below is for the 2023 California Environmental Assembly. If you have any questions, please contact us at events@pcl.org. Thank you!

The 2023 Assembly virtual sessions were held once a week each Thursday starting January 19th and ending on February 9th. There were two sessions per day, with the first one starting at 9 am and the second one starting at 10:45 am with the exception of our panels on February 2nd, our first panel that day started at 9 am, our second at 10:45 am, and our third panel started at 12:30 pm and ran until 2 pm (due to accommodating state legislators’ schedules).

Videos 

Panel 1: Aligning State Mandates with Local Creativity

Panel 2: New Housing Law and Sustainable Communities: What’s working, What’s Not

Panel 3: How Do We Make Massive Methane Emission Reductions Now?

Panel 4: Can Offshore Wind in Federal Waters be Responsible?

Panel 5: Can Modular Nuclear Reactors Help Save The Planet?

Panel 6: Mandatory Success Criteria for Evacuation Plans

Panel 7: AB 2438 and Beyond: bringing CA’s transportation spending into alignment with our Climate and Equity goals

Panel 8: Creating Paths from Dams to Aquifers

Panel 9: Updating California Water Laws in the Face of Droughts/Climate Change #2

Q&A and Chat Logs

Panel #1 Aligning State Mandates with Local Creativity

CHAT LOG    Q&A

Panel #2 New Housing Law and Sustainable Communities: What’s Working and What’s Not

CHAT LOG    Q&A

Panel #3 Can We Make Massive Methane Reductions Now?

No Chat was posted during the panel  Q&A

Panel #4 Can Offshore Wind In Federal Waters Be Responsible?

No Chat was posted during the panel Q&A

Panel #5 Can Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Help Save the Planet?

CHAT LOG    Q&A

Panel #6 Wildfire Evacuation Planning and Project Citing and Design

CHAT LOG    Q&A

Panel #7 AB 2438 and Beyond: Bringing CA’s Transportation Spending into Alignment with our Climate and Equity Goals

No Chat was posted during the panel    Q&A

Panel #8 Creating Paths from Dams to Aquifers

CHAT LOG Q&A

Panel #9 Updating California Water Laws in the Face of Droughts and Climate Change

CHAT LOG Q&A

Documents

Day One – January 19th:

Panel #1 State Mandates & Local Creativity

Ashley Werner

Beverly Palmer

Ivanka Sanders

Panel #2 Sustainable Housing (No slides presented)

Day Two – January 26th:

Panel #3 Methane

Deborah Gordon

Ken Alex

Scott Kelley

Riley Duren

Panel #4 Offshore Wind

Amber Hewett

Day Three – February 2nd:

Panel #5 Modular Nuclear Reactors

Alice Caponiti

Christine King

Mike Laufer

Panel #6 Fire Evacuation (No slides – see chat log above for panel bullet points)

Panel#7 Transportation Spending (no slides presented)

Day Four – February 9th:

Panel #8 Aquifers

Julie Rentner – River Partners

Aquifer Panel-Kamyar Guivetchi & Ajay Goyal-DWR

Matt Zidar San Jaoquin Cnty

California Water Resources doc with links (Click Here)

Panel #9 Water Law Updates

Updating California Water Laws to Address Drought and Climate Change

Updating California Water Laws—Summary

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