Here are all the climate and environment bills that California just passed

This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a newsletter about climate change and the environment. New support for clean energy: Assembly Bill 1373 — which could help get California’s first offshore wind farms built, and maybe some clean geothermal power plants too, by allowing the state to sign long-term contracts to buy electricity from those facilities — was approved. Lawmakers approved Senate Bill 48, which the advocacy group Environment America says would require state officials to develop a strategy to “improve energy and water efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in large buildings.” Legislators also passed Senate Bill 394, which would require state officials “to create a statewide plan to help school districts integrate climate resilience and sustainability into their master plans,” as Public News Service’s Suzanne Potter writes. Lawmakers declined to approve a bill creating the Salton Sea Conservancy — a new state agency that would have helped oversee efforts to limit air pollution and habitat degradation at California’s largest lake. “California’s $200 million commercial fishing industry could become the state’s first big casualty of climate change.” So writes the San Francisco Chronicle’s Tara Duggan in an illuminating story about one of the many consequences of global warming already underway.