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California Energy Commission Talk, Dec 18

ECOS Climate Change Committee Meeting

Thursday, December 18, 2025
6 PM (drinks/snacks starting at 5:30)
Hybrid meeting: In-person at Mogavero Architects, 1331 T Street, Sacramento
and on Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6656164155 (copy and paste link)
To phone in: 669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 665 616 4155

Speaker: Gypsy Achong, Program Manager in the Efficiency Division, California Energy Commission

Topic: Gypsy will discuss Assembly Bill 130, recent updates to the Building Energy Code, and the impacts of these changes on local efforts to build green.

Major legislative changes have adversely affected the state building standards adoption process and its contribution to residential building decarbonization. This summer, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 130, which pauses new updates to the California Building Standards Code, including the Energy Code, that affect residential units until January 1, 2032. The law also limits cities and counties in adopting stricter local building codes on or after October 1, 2025. Join us to discuss this topic with Gypsy Achong, Program Manager from the California Energy Commission.

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ECOS Letter on Airport South, 12/1/2025

On December 1, 2025, ECOS submitted a letter to the Mayor and City Council of Sacramento regarding Airport South Industrial Annexation (P21-017). Below is an excerpt from our letter.

We write to address your vote on the biggest environmental decision to come before the City Council in decades, again. We believe you should vote no on the Airport South Industrial Project.

ECOS has previously submitted a number of letters and e-comments expressing our concerns about the project.

Click here to read the letter.

Sacramento County development threatens a giant, shy snake. Why does that matter? November 20, 2025, The Sacramento Bee

By Jake Goodrick | November 20, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee

While the Sacramento project that had advanced the most stalled this summer after strongly-worded pushback from city officials, stewards of the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan — a 50-year effort to build in the basin while preserving habitat for its native species — wonder whether the agreement can endure the county’s unexpected influx of construction. Only so much land exists in the basin for the conservancy to protect its required part, which Roberts said could not happen if the county’s developments were to move forward. “No more of this. It’s a complete end to this.” Roberts said, waving to the intricately carved dirt lot, seeing the wetlands to take its place. “We’re certain that we cannot implement any more of the (habitat plan) if these developments take place. And we’re not equivocal about that. We’re resolute.”

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Jobs vs. Nature: Sacramento City Council considers land annex for industry in protected Natomas Basin, November 20, 2025, Capradio

By Riley Palmer | Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Capradio

Sacramento City Council weighed the merits of a large industrial development in North Natomas on Tuesday as environmentalists, developers and laborers argued for or against the controversial project.

The development, known as Airport South Industrial, would annex approximately 450 acres of protected land for warehouses into the city of Sacramento, south of the Metro Air Parkway and west of the Westlake neighborhood in Natomas.

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Sac supervisors shouldn’t just rubber-stamp SMUD’s Coyote Creek project, November 17, 2025, The Sacramento Bee

By The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board | November 17, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District — SMUD — has made a mistake it is unable to extricate itself from: A lack of due diligence surrounding the site of a potential energy project by outside developer D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) has put more than 1,400 acres — and 3,700 native oak trees — at risk of destruction for a solar array that critics say was poorly planned.

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