2021 Environmental Scorecard
SB 47 – Senate Floor #2
Increasing Spending Limits to Clean Up More Idle Oil Wells
SB 47 addresses the clean-up of hazardous and abandoned oil wells, which can leak and degrade air quality, water quality, and harm surrounding communities, ensuring that the cost of cleanup is not passed onto taxpayers even if an oil company declares bankruptcy. The bill does this by increasing the annual spending limit from a fund which derives its funding from oil industry fees to $5 million per year to be spent towards the cleanup of hazardous and abandoned oil wells.
Bill info from the legislature
Issues: Oil and Gas
Signed into Law
Status:
Passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Governor Newsom
Assembly:
52 yes
21 no
7 abstain
Senate:
27 yes
10 no
3 abstain
Governor:
Signed into Law
Legend Key
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Pro-Environmental Action
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Anti-Environmental Action
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NVDid Not Vote on Good Bill,
Counted Negatively -
NVDid Not Vote on Bad Bill,
Counted Positively -
Excused Absence, Not Counted
Positively or Negatively
