California lawmakers passed some precedent-setting climate and environment bills before the clock ran out Thursday, Sept. 14 on the 2023 legislative session.
“All in all, the legislature did some good work, and the governor has some important bills to sign,” said Christina Scaringe, a legislative specialist with the Center for Biological Diversity, when asked to look back over the session.
– A.B. 1322: This bill would expand a ban on the most harmful types of rat poisons in California to include a kind called diphacinone. Assemblymember Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, introduced the bill after the death of the mountain lion known as P-22, who was found to have rat poison in his system.