RECAP: Gas Price Relief + Illegal Cannabis Enforcement + Internet for All + Housing + School Buses = Big Week Delivering for Californians | California Governor - Office of Governor Gavin Newsom

SACRAMENTO – From delivering alleviation connected rising costs, including precocious state prices, to cleaning up California’s schoolhouse buses to breaking crushed connected a statewide 10,000-mile broadband network, the Newsom Administration was hard astatine enactment this week taking enactment for Californians crossed a assortment of issues.

Driving Down Gas Prices, Delivering Relief and Holding Greedy Oil Companies Accountable

As Middle Class Tax Refunds proceed hitting slope accounts crossed the state, delivering important alleviation for Californians, Governor Gavin Newsom’s actions to thrust down precocious state prices are paying disconnected astatine the pump. Compared to a week ago, state prices are down successful California an mean of $0.24, acknowledgment successful portion to the Governor’s enactment to power to winter-blend gasoline early.

At the aforesaid time, the Governor is moving to clasp greedy lipid companies accountable for raking successful grounds profits portion fleecing Californians astatine the pump. He announced past Friday that he’s calling a peculiar legislative league connected December 5 to enactment windfall profits of lipid companies back in taxpayers’ pockets.

Meanwhile, Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan advocacy radical for American consumers, published a study past week showing the request for taking connected windfall profits.

Consumer Watchdog reports: “All 5 refiners raked successful unprecedented profits per gallon successful the West – profits of betwixt 79 cents and $1.01 per gallon. … In the 2nd quarter, Consumer Watchdog reports these 5 refiners made from 3 to 10 times much successful profits per gallon disconnected their West Coast operations from April done June than they did successful the aforesaid play past year.”

Eradicating $15 Million Worth of Illegal Cannabis

Governor Newsom’s recently formed Unified Cannabis Enforcement Task Force (UCETF), is taking assertive action to ace down connected amerciable cannabis operations – protecting communities and consumers passim California and the U.S. from unregulated and perchance harmful cannabis products. The task unit conducted an cognition successful a agrarian country of Jupiter successful Tuolumne County connected October 4, targeting unlicensed outdoor cultivation operations. Nine hunt warrants were served during this multi-agency operation. Officers eradicated 11,260 amerciable cannabis plants and destroyed 5,237 lbs. of illegally processed cannabis flower, worthy an estimated retail worth of much than $15 million, according to the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC).

Getting High-Speed Internet to All Californians

Construction began yesterday successful agrarian San Diego County connected the archetypal limb of a 10,000-mile broadband network aimed astatine bringing high-speed net services to each Californians, nary substance wherever they live. The planned network, which volition beryllium the nation’s largest, volition screen the full authorities to assistance bring reliable, high-speed net entree to the millions of Californians who bash not person it now.

$$$ for Fixing California’s Supply Chain

With the pandemic-induced backlog of cargo ships astatine the state’s ports rapidly fading, the absorption is turning to semipermanent proviso concatenation improvements. The California State Transportation Agency issued last guidelines and a telephone for projects this week for the unprecedented $1.2 cardinal successful one-time authorities funding for larboard and freight infrastructure projects to physique a much efficient, sustainable and resilient goods question system.

More Electric School Buses Than Any Other State

California has much than treble the fig of clean schoolhouse buses successful the remainder of the U.S. according to a new study published by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) this week. There are 1,800 zero-emission buses operating oregon connected bid successful California compared to 888 successful different states.

To date, the authorities has invested much than $1.2 cardinal to cleanable up old, diesel-burning schoolhouse buses with an further $1.8 cardinal going retired implicit the adjacent 5 years for zero-emission schoolhouse buses and associated charging infrastructure.

The backing is portion of the California Climate Commitment, a grounds $54 cardinal concern successful clime action, which includes $10 cardinal for accelerating California’s modulation to zero-emission vehicles with important user rebates and backing for charging infrastructure.

Expanding Housing for Older Californians and Those With Disabilities

Governor Newsom, with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), announced this week that 12 organizations were awarded a full of $53 cardinal successful grants to make much residential attraction options for older adults and adults with disabilities, including radical astatine hazard of oregon experiencing homelessness. A full of 402 beds oregon units volition beryllium created with these funds.

Welcoming the First Class of #CaliforniansForAll College Corps Fellows

Last Friday, Governor Newsom, alongside California Chief Service Officer Josh Fryday and higher acquisition leaders, swore successful the archetypal class of #CaliforniansForAll College Corps Fellows, much than 3,200 students pledging to service communities crossed the authorities portion earning wealth to wage for college.

This first-of-its-kind inaugural provides undergraduate students astatine 46 colleges and universities crossed California the accidental to gain $10,000 for committing to 1 twelvemonth of work focused connected 3 cardinal contented areas for the state: K-12 education, clime enactment and nutrient insecurity.