Planet for Our Future

My plan to fight Big Polluters and combat climate change.

Floods, fires, and droughts—California is on the frontlines of climate change. Yet, for decades, career politicians have exacerbated the crisis. They’ve given sweetheart deals to Big Oil and failed to safeguard us from natural disasters, all while ignoring our crumbling electric grid.

Time is running out, and our state's future is at stake. California has not always had a fierce environmental champion in the U.S. Senate; we cannot afford to let that be the case ever again. We need a Senator who has never been beholden to Big Oil to do the work. 

I’ll always oppose federal subsidies and tax breaks for polluters and will require them to clean up their messes, and I’ll bring back California’s appropriate share of federal investments to achieve net-zero carbon pollution.

California has done the work on climate, from households adopting environmentally friendly practices, like food waste recycling, to our state setting the most ambitious climate goals in the nation. Our federal government should reward Californians, who have led the way, rather than directing federal investments into anti-union, polluter-friendly states.

I’ve seen firsthand how the fossil fuel lobby uses its cash to buy votes in Washington, preventing policies that advance the energy of the 21st century, like solar and wind. That’s why I’m not afraid to rewrite the rules to make the federal government work for us—not corporations—and focus on policies that will create a resilient California for generations to come. 

My eight-point plan lays out how I’ll protect our environment, tackle the climate crisis, and secure California’s fair share of federal green investments. 

1. Holding polluters accountable: I successfully pressured the Biden Administration to update the rules so that Big Oil has to put up money for cleanup, rather than leaving taxpayers on the hook for its messes. In the Senate, I’ll fight to make those changes permanent. 

2. Protecting our public lands: I strongly support efforts to protect 30% of our natural landscapes by 2030, and to make sure these protected lands include communities that currently lack green space. 

3. Fighting for California’s fair share of water: In the House, I secured money for the expansion of recycled water projects, groundwater storage projects, and the Syphon Reservoir Project, which will expand water storage capacity ten-fold. In the Senate I’ll build on this work, allowing us to stretch our water resources and protect fragile environments.  

4. Making California resilient from future climate disasters: I’ll push to make it affordable for working families in high-risk areas to improve the resilience of their homes. We as taxpayers cannot keep paying out hundreds of billions of dollars each decade because Washington has failed to enact climate-mitigation policies.   

5. Investing in clean and renewable energy: I’ll make sure the federal government rewards California for our clean energy investment and harnesses our renewable energy potential. I’ll build on the progress of the Inflation Reduction Act by helping low-income Californians afford electric vehicles, extending the electric vehicle tax credit, building more infrastructure that Californians need to charge their electric vehicles, and strengthening credits for wind and solar power development.

6. Upgrading our national electric grid: Standing up to polluters, we should advance policies that streamline the approval of clean energy projects that update our electrical grid to be climate resilient and energy efficient. 

7. Fully implement the Inflation Reduction Act: I know firsthand the frustration of how high costs can make it hard to upgrade to safer, energy-efficient appliances. That is why I’ve forcefully pushed the Biden Administration to get clean energy rebates and tax credits to California families ASAP. 

8. Decarbonizing our infrastructure: As our country builds next-generation infrastructure, we must transition to using next-generation construction materials. 

Thanks for reading my plan, and thanks for caring about the future we can build for California.

Katie Porter