A bill signed into law Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom will now ban certain businesses from watering its grass in an effort to reduce water usage.

The bill is modeled after the State placed similar rules on commercial, industrial and government agencies from using drinking water for grass deemed “non-functional” in 2022.

The governor signed 75% of the major environmental bills that lawmakers sent to his desk. As for vetoes, Newsom cited enforcement, cost concerns.

California is set to take major swings at boosting renewable energy, reining in corporate emissions, safeguarding wild places and ensuring livability amid worsening climate change after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed most of the environment-related legislation lawmakers sent his way this session.

THE WHAT? California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning 26 chemicals commonly found in cosmetics like hair products, body wash, and nail polish, citing health concerns.

California has passed into law a bill to prohibit the manufacturing and selling of cosmetics that contain certain ingredients.

This law updates the state’s 2020 Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act, which banned 24 chemicals from use in personal care products. 

The streets are too fast and too furious, California lawmakers say.

“For too long, we have referred to most of these deaths as 'accidents' to sweep under the rug the uncomfortable truth: these deaths are preventable,” Assembly member Laura Friedman of Burbank, one of the bill's authors, said in a statement. “Slowing cars down is imperative to saving lives.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 645 into law on Friday night. The bill will allow some of the state’s largest cities — San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Glendale, Los Angeles and Long Beach — to test speed cameras during a five-year pilot program that cities can start implementing as soon as Jan. 1, 2024.

Surveillance cameras that automatically catch speeding drivers in school zones and “safety corridors” will be legal in California for the first time next year, thanks to a controversial traffic-safety bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday.

California will restrict the usage of a toxic rat poison known to harm wildlife under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday.

AB1322, also known as the California Ecosystems Protection Act of 2023, adds pesticides containing the chemical diphacinone to an existing list of restricted rat poisons. 

On October 13, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 645, a speed camera bill, into law. AB 645, introduced by Assemblymember Laura Friedman from Long Beach, allows San Francisco and five other California cities to pilot automated speed cameras for the next five years. 

After about 10 years since the project was first introduced the Fremont Park renovation is officially beginning.

“I can tell you this is one of my favorite parks,” said Assemblymember Laura Friedman. “This is where my [daughter] learned to ride her bike. This is where she learned to ride her scooter. I know every bit of playground equipment here.”

Fremont Park is located at 600 Hahn Avenue in Glendale. This 100-year-old park is about eight acres and is the center of activity for many of the residents that surround the area.