Energy and Environment

Alex is determined to fight the existential threat of climate change. Having grown up in a low-income, heavily polluted neighborhood, he is dedicated to ensuring that every family has access to clean air and clean water. He served for six years as Chair of the California State Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Communications, where he led the development of California’s ambitious renewable energy and climate policies that now serve as a model for the rest of the country. Alex’s environmental leadership has continued in the U.S. Senate. In addition to cosponsoring the Green New Deal, Alex introduced sweeping legislation to electrify our nation’s school buses and protect over one million acres of public lands in California, increasing access to nature and preserving California’s natural treasures for generations to come.

Alex understands the threat that increasingly frequent and catastrophic natural disasters and extreme weather events pose to California and the Western United States. That’s why he fought to secure millions of dollars in federal funding for flood control infrastructure to protect communities from catastrophic floods and rising sea levels. His bill the POWER ON Act was signed into law by President Biden to prevent utility outages caused by natural disasters like wildfires and other extreme weather events. And while California continues to face the threat of devastating wildfires, Alex led the successful passage of the FIRE Act, to modernize the way FEMA prepares for and responds to wildfires.

Recent News

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, convened a hearing entitled “Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure in Tribal Communities.” The hearing examined a range of water-related challenges for tribes...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.), along with Representatives Ken Calvert (R-Calif.-41) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.-18), led the entire California delegation in calling on the Biden Administration to grant Governor Gavin Newsom’s request...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) joined Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and a bipartisan group of senators in urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to avoid mass resignations within the wildland...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, convened a hearing entitled “Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure in Tribal Communities.” The hearing examined a range of water-related challenges for tribes...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.), along with Representatives Ken Calvert (R-Calif.-41) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.-18), led the entire California delegation in calling on the Biden Administration to grant Governor Gavin Newsom’s request...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) joined Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and a bipartisan group of senators in urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to avoid mass resignations within the wildland...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) announced that California was awarded over $102 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service to combat extreme heat and climate change, plant and maintain trees,...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Representatives Doris Matsui (D-Calif.-07), Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.-09), and Nanette Barragán (D-Calif.-44) led a bicameral letter to the Environmental Protection Agency...
WASHINGTON D.C. — Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) today led a bipartisan group of senators calling on the Senate Agriculture Committee to not include the controversial Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act (EATS) Act in the upcoming farm bill....
SACRAMENTO, CA — Following Tropical Storm Hilary damage to California specialty crops, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) today hosted United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials alongside local leaders and growers to announce bipartisan legislation to improve access to federal agriculture disaster programs. The announcement comes ahead of the September 30...
Biden-Harris Administration heeds California lawmakers’ call to move forward on designation of proposed 5,600-square mile marine sanctuary to span area between existing Monterey and Channel Islands sanctuaries SANTA BARBARA, CA — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (Both D-Calif.)...
BAKERSFIELD, CA — Today, following a week of extreme heat advisories and temperatures over 105 degrees in the Central Valley, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) joined union members and workers from the United Farm Workers (UFW) and the Kern, Inyo, and Mono Counties Central Labor...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) released the following statement on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which was signed into law by President Biden one year ago today: “One year since President Biden and Democrats in Congress passed the most ambitious...
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