ACTION ALERT: Support CEQA modernization & $180B infrastructure plan

We'll lead with numbers. What's at stake if we can't get Governor Newsom's infrastructure package across the finish line? The opportunity to create 400,000 good-paying jobs and secure $180 billion for vital infrastructure. What's driving the urgency to get this passed now? California's pledge to achieve 100% carbon neutrality across all sectors by 2045.

We can't build the clean energy infrastructure we need without modernizing CEQA processes and streamlining permitting. Naysayers are investing heavily in narrow-minded attack campaigns. We need to step up our support game.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Use the link to quickly submit an advocacy message with a single click. Follow up by calling the legislators listed below to express your unequivocal support for Governor Newsom's proposed infrastructure package of budget trailer bills. We invite you to use the attached phone scripts to guide your messaging. It's important that we continue amplifying our support far and wide, but the targeting these lawmakers is crucial as the Legislature's deadline looms.

• Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon: (916) 319-2062
• Assembly Speaker Designate Robert Rivas: (916) 319-2029
• Assemblymember Laura Friedman: (916) 319-2044
• Senator Ben Allen: (916) 651-4024

Please let BizFed Director of Advocacy & Policy Sarah Wiltfong know as soon as you've taken action so we can properly credit you and your organization in our upcoming strategy sessions with Newsom administration leaders.

WHY IT MATTERS

HOW BUSINESS IS LEANING IN

• We testified at every informational hearing this month.
• We helped rally nearly 90 statewide business groups to sign a support letter that was delivered by the New California Coalition to all 120 state legislators.
• We signed on to a homepage ad on the Capitol Weekly website.
• We signed on to a bold newspaper ad that ran in Southern California News Group's Sunday edition papers, which reach 1.2 million readers.

Onward!

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Tracy Hernandez
BizFed Founding CEO