Planning and Conservation League

10/01/2026

We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with the Certified Wildlife Habitat program through the National Wildlife Federation! The certification fee supports wildlife in our beautiful state of California! Learn more here: https://pcl.org/foundation/my-habitat/

10/01/2026

PCL is proud to support the No On 45 campaign! To learn more and get involved in the campaign to protect your neighborhood, visit https://www.noprop45ca.com/

Big projects should come with public input. Communities deserve a say in what gets built in their neighborhoods.

08/31/2026

Contact Gov Newsom – ask him to sign SB 954 into law to protect our communities. Visit https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact/, select “legislation " from the drop-down menu, and follow the steps to leave a comment.

08/27/2026

SB 954 Passes the Assembly! Now on to the Senate! Please contact your state Senator and ask them to vote YES on SB 954! https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

08/25/2026

PCL's Capital Insider for August 25, 2026

End-of-Session Legislative Update - Without fail, the last two weeks of the legislative session are always chaotic.

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08/04/2026

Help protect Our Coast! There are plans afoot to lease new ocean tracts off the California Coast for Oil & Gas drilling - we can't let that happen! AB 1448 helps continue and expand existing protections in the face of these new threats.

Call your state senators today and ask them to support AB 1448 to protect our Coast!

07/30/2026

PCL's Capital Insider for July 2026

Push for a fix to SB 131. What emerged from our engagement with legislators over the fall and winter is this year’s SB 954 by Senator Blakespear.

Just over a year ago on Friday, June 27th, 2025, SB 607, a broad-reaching CEQA reform bill that the environmental, public health, and environmental justice communities had worked all spring to oppose, was folded into SB 131, a must-pass, Governor-demanded budget trailer bill. SB 131 created an exemp...

07/28/2026

Prop 45 Is a Taxpayer Trap. Every Public Official Needs to Understand Why.

Under Prop 45, developers — not public agencies — will control the key decisions that determine how environmental protections apply to their projects. It dramatically shifts the balance of power away from cities and communities, and could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to implement.

https://pcl.org/prop45_local_government_impacts/

06/10/2026

Among PCL’s many interests this legislative session, a top priority is Senator Cabaldon’s SB 1087, seeking to update the historic 2008 bill, SB 375 – The Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act. SB 375 was a precedent-setting statute that has shaped PCL’s work to improve land use and transportation policy ever since, and we have been centrally engaged in the almost two-year conversation that has culminated in SB 1087.

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Among PCL’s many interests this legislative session, a top priority is Senator Cabaldon’s SB 1087, seeking to update the historic 2008 bill, SB 375 – The Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act. SB 375 was a precedent-setting statute that has shaped PCL’s work to improve land use ...

04/29/2026

PCL’s Capital Insider – April 2026
By most metrics, April was quite a successful month for California environmental policy. Read more at...https://pcl.org/pcls-capital-insider-april-2026/

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