Urgent Action for Friday, May 16

Call Sacramento Today!

Ask these senators on Appropriations to please OPPOSE SB 540:

The Senate Judiciary Committee ignored the warnings of its own analyst and passed this dangerous bill, which would deliver California into a Western regionalization grid. Now the bill will be heard in Appropriations on Monday, May 19.

There’s been no financial analysis done (!) to compare the outcome of spending $300mm on grid regionalization to what that same investment in California wind and solar would bring to the state.

• Costs to ratepayers will go UP.

• CA ratepayers would pay for extending the life of coal plants (!) in other states.

• One of the biggest costs is our giving up our independent decision-making and climate policy. Our policy would be undermined by becoming subject to approval by FERC, now a highly Trumpified regulatory body.

350 BAA’s 1-page summary of SB 540 is here.

For a readable deep dive, see “A Potential Trump Power Grab, Brought to you by Democrats—Big Tech-backed Democrats could hand one of the country’s largest and greenest energy markets to Trump and his fossil fuel acolytes.”

Thanks to Laura Neish of 350 BAA for sounding the alarm. Please make those calls!

Senator Wahab - Sacto office (916) 651-4410

Senator Grayson - Sacto office (916) 651-4009