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US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, May 8, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • As a former engines of our economy.
  • capacity in autos, engines, and parts rose 71%.
  • and parts rose capacity in autos engines and parts rose 71%. 71%. 71%.
  • The fact is, California emissions.
Bills: SCR12 , HR276
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 2/13/25 - Part 1

Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Chamber Foundation partnered with Barr Engineering, who was the lead researcher on this project.
  • The Chamber Foundation partnered with Barr Engineering, who was the lead researcher on this project.
  • Barr Engineering also looked at timelines for the state's water permitting programs, and here the finding
  • </c><01:04:09.079><c> however</c> productivity and lower emissions however productivity and lower emissions
  • and to ensure Minnesota agriculture, specifically livestock production, is a cornerstone economic engine
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • needed for large-scale deployment, pipelines are widely recognized as the most efficient, lowest-emission
  • It behaves differently under pressure and requires specialized engineering and safety standards to minimize
  • As engines and technology have moved forward over the intervening three decades, that delta has narrowed
  • My team plans, engineers, and delivers investments that keep our gas distribution safe, reliable, and
  • There's also the requirement to pre-fund the contract with the installation of behind-the-meter zero-emission
Summary: The committee first heard SB 804, the Hydrogen Pipeline Safety Act, from Senator Arreguín. He said the bill would designate the State Fire Marshal as the safety regulator for intrastate hydrogen pipelines and require hydrogen-specific standards, while not mandating any pipeline construction or bypassing environmental review. Supporters included labor groups, utility employees, and the City of Burbank, while Air Products opposed unless amended, citing concerns about the bill’s specificity, fee structure, and the need for a hydrogen-specific rulemaking process. The committee discussed safety, fees, and regulatory certainty, and later passed SB 804 on a 9-0 vote to Emergency Management with commitment to take amendments. The committee then took up SB 905 by Senator Becker, aimed at reducing electricity rates by changing utility incentives. The bill would tie part of executive compensation to keeping rates below inflation, require more performance metrics, and allow the CPUC to consider lower returns on equity for certain lower-risk investments and alternative financing options. Support came from consumer, environmental, agricultural, and large energy user groups, while Southern California Edison, CalChamber, PG&E, and utility labor groups raised concerns that the bill could reduce investment, create regulatory uncertainty, and raise borrowing costs. After extensive discussion about utility affordability, wildfire costs, and capital markets, the committee passed SB 905 on a 7-1 vote to Appropriations. SB 913, also by Senator Becker, would create a clearer pathway for distributed energy resources such as batteries and smart thermostats to participate in the resource adequacy market and compete with utility-scale resources. Supporters said the bill would better use existing grid capacity, lower costs, and build on the state’s Demand Side Grid Support Program; PG&E opposed unless amended, saying the use case was not yet proven and was already being addressed in other rulemakings. After the committee accepted amendments, one opposition group moved to neutral and another said it might do so after reviewing the changes. The bill passed 8-0 to Appropriations and was placed on call. Several other measures were heard and advanced, including SB 1196 on faster utility hookups for small energization projects such as ADUs and EV chargers, SB 931 reauthorizing the Diablo Canyon Essential Services Mitigation Fund through 2028, SB 1158 reducing the frequency of joint reliability assessments from quarterly to twice yearly, and SB 1245 directing further study of California’s gasoline market and potential use of non-CARBOB fuel during supply disruptions. SB 1196 and SB 931 both passed with broad support and no opposition after amendments, SB 1158 passed without testimony, and SB 1245 drew strong support from consumer and environmental advocates but opposition from fuel industry and business groups concerned about costs, confidentiality, and fuel standards.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Jun 24th, 2026

Utilities and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • needed for large-scale deployment, pipelines are widely recognized as the most efficient, lowest-emission
  • Materials behave differently under pressure and require specialized engineering and safety standards
  • As engines and technology have moved forward over the intervening three decades, that delta has narrowed
  • My team plans, engineers, and delivers investments that keep our gas distribution safe, reliable, and
  • There's also the requirement to pre-fund the contract with the installation of behind-the-meter zero-emission
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Dec 4th, 2025 at 04:00 pm

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is that per engine, or is that for the entirety of the engine replacement program?
  • I believe it is generally for the two-engine boats, the cost. More questions.
  • I'm the state bridge and structures engineer.
  • So the joke among the engineers in our office was that the span forgot to fall down.
  • And I'm not a bridge engineer, but they had to do some work.
Summary: The committee received a detailed staff presentation on Washington State Ferries’ capital program, service levels, fleet age, and long-term funding needs. Staff said the system is operating with 21 vessels, no Sidney, B.C. service, and limited spare capacity, which leaves service vulnerable to disruptions. They described aging vessels, deferred preservation work, dry dock constraints, terminal needs, and the state’s electrification plan, including three new hybrid-electric Olympic class vessels now funded, one Jumbo Mark II conversion, and several terminal electrification projects. Members asked about ridership trends, biodiesel supply, procurement risk, sequencing of terminal electrification with new vessels, and the possibility of restoring international service; staff said many of those questions would need follow-up with the department. The presentation emphasized that current funding covers near-term needs, but long-term ferry capital needs exceed available resources by roughly $250 million to $300 million per biennium, with additional future needs not yet funded. The committee then heard from WSDOT maintenance operations staff on the condition of the highway system. The presentation said maintenance is increasingly reactive because of underinvestment, rising material costs, and the addition of new assets without corresponding operating funds. Staff highlighted winter operations, facilities that are mostly in poor or critical condition, a large equipment fleet, growing guardrail damage, and increasing pavement and bridge preservation backlogs. Members asked about asbestos in facilities, the effect of deferred maintenance, and whether the agency had previously warned about these needs. Staff said the program is funded at only about half of its facility need and that more than 40% of roadways are due or overdue for preservation. A separate preservation presentation focused on highways and bridges. Staff said WSDOT is below the lowest life-cycle cost for preservation and that delaying work can make repairs three to five times more expensive later. They reported that about 40% of roadways need preservation now, bridge conditions are nearing the federal poor-bridge threshold, and the agency is prioritizing the highest-risk bridge and closure threats first. The presentation cited an estimated $8 billion 10-year preservation need to change the trajectory of the system. Members asked about prioritization, whether other states face similar issues, and whether a cost-benefit analysis of earlier repairs versus later costs had been done; staff said they would look into those questions. Finally, the committee heard about bridge strikes and financial recovery. WSDOT bridge staff described recent overheight vehicle strikes on Bullfrog Road over I-90 and SR 410 over White River, noting the safety risks, closures, and repair costs. They outlined countermeasures such as improved trip-planning tools, outreach, and a possible sensor/beacon pilot on SR 410. Financial recovery staff said the agency collects about $20 million per biennium from third-party damage claims, recovering roughly 78% to 80% of billed amounts, with insurance claims and collections used to recoup costs. Members asked about prevention feedback loops and where recovered money goes; staff said recoveries go to the motor vehicle fund and that there is not a formal routine mechanism for design or policy changes from individual claims.
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado House 2026 Legislative Day 113 May 6th, 2026

Colorado House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Do you emissions reduction projects.
  • Emissions<03:13:17.880><c> reduction</c><03:13:18.400><c> projects.
  • </c><03:44:24.320><c> They</c> engagement engineers in the world.
  • They engagement engineers in the world.
  • ><c> to</c><03:50:15.320><c> keep</c> These platforms are engineered to keep These platforms are engineered
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/09/2026 - Arizona Off-Highway Vehicle Study Committee

Arizona Off-Highway Vehicle Study Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • I do have a background in engineering with Polaris.
  • So our emissions fit under EPA. Our safety regulations are under EPA.
  • I do a background in engineering with Polaris.
  • federal level so we're very we're very clear about that expand on some of those yeah absolutely so our emissions
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • campus is represented among the awardees, and the funded projects include disciplines spanning engineering
  • communications to ethics of AI in the School of Information to introduction to AI and software engineering
  • energy and water consumption, this could directly conflict with its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  • It directly conflicts with its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building a more sustainable
Summary: The Assembly Committee on Higher Education and the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee held an oversight hearing on the California State University’s AI-empowered initiative, including the systemwide rollout of ChatGPT EDU and broader AI integration across CSU campuses. Opening remarks emphasized both the promise of AI for student success, workforce preparation, and access, and the need to address risks such as bias, privacy, misinformation, environmental impacts, and mental health harms. CSU representatives said the initiative grew out of Academic Senate recommendations and a systemwide generative AI committee, and that the goal was to provide equitable access, training, governance, and workforce alignment across the 23-campus system. CSU officials described systemwide contracts for AI tools, the AI Commons training hub, and faculty grant programs supporting AI-related curriculum innovation. They said more than 93,000 ChatGPT EDU accounts had been activated, over 4,300 faculty had taken voluntary training, and $3 million had been awarded to 63 faculty-led projects from more than 400 submissions. San Jose State University highlighted its own AI-focused programs, courses, orientation training, faculty fellows, student ambassadors, and interdisciplinary efforts to build AI literacy and responsible use into instruction and co-curricular programs. CSU also said it was tracking metrics on adoption, academic outcomes, workforce outcomes, and environmental impacts. Faculty, staff, and student representatives welcomed the educational potential of AI but raised concerns about the rollout, saying it had moved quickly and without enough consultation or consistent systemwide policy. They urged stronger protections for academic freedom, intellectual property, privacy, equity, and worker input, and warned about bias, surveillance, job displacement, and the environmental cost of AI. Legislators pressed CSU and OpenAI representatives on training requirements, data privacy, bias reporting, discipline for misuse, liability, sycophancy, and safeguards against harmful uses such as non-consensual imagery or self-harm-related interactions. CSU said interactions in the licensed tool are private, data are not used to train models, and campuses retain their own conduct processes; members also asked CSU to follow up on systemwide training, policy consistency, and additional safeguards.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • campus is represented among the awardees, and the funded projects include disciplines spanning engineering
  • communications to ethics of AI in the School of Information to introduction to AI and software engineering
  • energy and water consumption, this could directly conflict with its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  • energy and water consumption, this could directly conflict with its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Summary: The hearing focused on the California State University’s AI Empowered Initiative, including the systemwide rollout of ChatGPT EDU, the CSU Generative AI Committee, the AI Commons training hub, and the AI Workforce Acceleration Board. CSU officials said the initiative was designed to expand equitable access, avoid a digital divide, and prepare students for an AI-driven workforce. They described systemwide licensing, privacy protections, no use of CSU prompts or data to train models, voluntary faculty participation, professional development offerings, and a $3 million faculty grant program supporting AI-related teaching and curriculum projects across campuses, including San Jose State’s AI-focused programs and student orientation training. Committee members pressed CSU leaders and OpenAI’s representative on bias, privacy, data retention, liability, environmental impact, student mental health, sycophancy, and whether training should be required before access. CSU officials said training materials address ethical use, bias, and critical thinking, that interactions are treated like private email, and that users can report problematic outputs through the tool. They also said the system is separate from the federal preservation order affecting public ChatGPT data. Several members urged more uniform, systemwide training and stronger safeguards, especially for students and vulnerable users. Faculty, staff, and student representatives offered a more cautious view. The Academic Senate and Faculty Association said they had long pushed CSU to study AI and support faculty development, but criticized the rollout as too fast, insufficiently consultative, and too focused on vendor partnerships and spending. They raised concerns about intellectual property, surveillance, bias, environmental costs, workload, and the need for bargaining and transparency. The staff union called for worker councils, negotiated guardrails, and protections against job displacement. The student representative supported broader access and AI literacy but asked for clearer campus policies, more consistent training, better privacy explanations, and stronger student input. No formal votes were taken during the hearing.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 06:30 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Even when it was passed in 2019, today, there is still not an analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions
  • Even when it was passed in 2019, today, there is still not an analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • relating to monies available to a port district allocated for the purchase of zero and near-zero emission
  • in perpetuity, that you will not be able to use public funds to increase, you know, have the zero emissions
  • in perpetuity, that you will not be able to use public funds to increase, you know, have the zero emissions
  • And I will admit, so the no-idle law does make sense in many cases: fuel consumption, emissions, possibility
  • Emissions, possibility of theft. But this gives you a choice.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Summary: The Senate convened with roll call, the colors presented by the Sons of the American Revolution Color Guard, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a prayer by Pastor Jesse Bradley. The journal was approved, and the chamber received House messages announcing passage of several bills, including House Bill 1687, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1960, House Bill 102, and Substitute House Bill 1. The Senate then adopted Senate Resolution 8684, which honored Washingtonians with ties to Team USA at the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina. Senator Riccelli spoke in support, praising the athletes’ determination and Washington connections. The resolution passed by voice vote. The Senate next considered gubernatorial appointments. Brian C. Bennett was confirmed 49-0 as Director of the Washington State Lottery, with Senator Lovick speaking in support and highlighting Bennett’s public service and transition-team work. Angela Ramirez was then confirmed 49-0 as Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, with Senators Claire Wilson and Christian praising her experience, commitment, and attention to human services issues. After the confirmations, the Senate stood at ease for caucuses.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Science, Technology and Energy (03/03/2025)

Science, Technology and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><04:37:29.439><c> including</c> release of polluting emissions including release of polluting emissions
  • The title now is discouraging the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding
  • we retained from her earlier emissions we retained from her earlier Amendment<04:41:14.798><c> a</c>
  • </c><04:42:36.040><c> is</c><04:42:36.760><c> discouraged</c> that geo geo engineering is discouraged
  • Um, it talks about involving the intentional release of polluting emissions.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session - 05/12/26

Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And I understand the admirable goal of wanting to limit carbon emissions and all the science that goes
  • But of course, we know that nuclear doesn't have carbon emissions.
  • And I understand the admirable goal of wanting to limit carbon emissions and all the science that goes
  • But of course, we know that nuclear doesn't have carbon emissions.
  • But of course, we know that nuclear doesn't have carbon emissions.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources Jan 15th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Agriculture & Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • The project is a collaboration between the Corps of Engineers, the Yakama Nation, the Department of Fish
  • We really need to continue to reduce carbon emissions where we can, which is the main driver of acidifying
  • Departments of Commerce and Energy, for example, admitted that their report detailing the impact on CO2 emission
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Science, Technology and Energy (02/03/2025)

Science, Technology and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Many of you here are engineers. You know that I am not an engineer.
  • according to BOM, U.S. offshore wind projects by themselves will have a limited impact on global emissions
  • </c><04:18:56.960><c> and</c><04:18:57.239><c> climate</c><04:18:57.600><c> change</c> global emissions
  • and climate change global emissions and climate change bom<04:19:00.199><c> Point</c><04:19:00.479><
  • aspects of our energy portfolio and trying to clean them up, trying to make sure we were lowering emissions
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Budget Committee Feb 17th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • appreciate you addressing a drafting error that we had about hydrogen and heavy-duty and medium-duty zero-emission
  • members about that was important both to that region and to the state more broadly, given the economic engine
Summary: The Assembly Budget Committee held an informational hearing on two early-action budget bills. AB 107 would make mostly technical corrections to prior budget acts, including extending deadlines, fixing fiscal language, moving $20 million for California travel and tourism promotion from Visit California to GoBiz, and making changes related to Proposition 4 climate bond funding. A key provision would exempt development of program guidelines and selection criteria for certain 2025 climate bond appropriations from the Administrative Procedure Act, which supporters said would speed implementation of wildfire prevention and other projects. Members raised concerns about oversight, competitive bidding, and whether vendors and safeguards were sufficient, while public commenters from water, climate, and conservation groups strongly supported the APA exemption and urged similar treatment for future allocations. AB 117 would authorize up to $590 million in short-term loans for four Bay Area transit agencies: BART, Muni, Caltrain, and AC Transit. Finance explained that the loan would be administered through MTC using Bay Area TIRCP funds that have been awarded but not yet allocated, making the structure cost-neutral to the state. The loan would run 12 years, with the first two years interest-only, and repayment would be secured through state transit assistance funds if needed. Several members questioned whether the proposal amounted to a bailout, whether it was fair to prioritize the Bay Area, and whether the structure adequately protected other projects, especially BART to Silicon Valley Phase 2; Finance and committee staff said safeguards and monitoring provisions were included and that no state funds were at risk. Public testimony was largely supportive of both bills. Transit agencies and local officials said the loan would provide bridge financing as ridership remains below pre-pandemic levels, while allowing service improvements and major events to continue. San Jose representatives and some members asked for possible cleanup language to better protect large regional capital projects. The chair said the committee anticipated hearing the bills on the floor later in the week, and the hearing was adjourned after public comment.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Budget Committee Feb 17th, 2026

Budget

Transcript Highlights:
  • appreciate you addressing a drafting error that we had about hydrogen and heavy-duty and medium-duty zero-emission
  • members about that was important both to that region and to the state more broadly, given the economic engine
Committee: House Budget
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Jan 28th, 2025

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • He would like to be a computer engineer so that he can create some really cool video games.
  • I mean, they've reduced methane emissions, maybe in the 20 percent range, and other greenhouse gases