Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) is celebrating the launch of the first phase of California’s first federal Home Energy Rebates program to help lower utility bills and home energy costs for Central Coast residents.
The rebate program launching today will make it cheaper for California residents to install energy cost-saving measures such as heat pumps, electrical panels, and… Read more »
On Monday, August 12, 2024, Congressman Salud Carbajal joined Leah Stokes from Rewiring America, Rincon Plumbing, Community Environmental Council (CEC), and Tri-County Regional Energy Network (3C-REN) to celebrate the clean electric upgrades at the home of Santa Barbara artist Tal Avitzur and his wife Lisa made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The event celebrated the… Read more »
Today, the Congressional Offshore Wind Caucus announced its new bipartisan leadership slate ahead of its first meeting led by the new co-chairs with industry and policy stakeholders later this week.
The Offshore Wind Caucus is now led by Co-Chairs:
· Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24)
· Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY-04)
· Rep.… Read more »
Representative Carbajal voted today to finalize $13,446,901 in funding he secured for Central Coast community projects in the 2024 government spending deal advanced by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The funding, which Rep. Carbajal championed over the course of the past year’s federal budget negotiations, will go towards 14 projects ranging from affordable housing construction and… Read more »
This week, Congressman Salud Carbajal, Vice Chair for Outreach of the New Democrat Coalition, is highlighting this week the recent release of the Coalition’s new Economic Opportunity Agenda to continue lowering costs, fighting inflation, and growing the middle class.
This new plan builds on the New Democrat Coalition’s Action Plan to Fight Inflation, which Rep. Carbajal helped develop… Read more »
Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) announced he is reintroducing his bill aimed at protecting the Central Coast in response to a renewed push by the new House Republican majority seeking to expand offshore drilling and the sale of public lands to oil companies.
“When I first came to Congress six years ago, I pledged to our Central Coast communities that I would fight back against… Read more »
This week, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) led a group of 15 members of California’s congressional delegation in calling for a federal investigation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission into recent spikes in home energy costs.
“With unexpectedly high home gas prices, we have heard stories from our constituents who have had to make the hard choice between staying warm at night… Read more »
Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) denounced a measure put up for a vote by the new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives that would hamstring the Executive Branch’s ability to release oil from the United States’ strategic reserves, despite evidence that previous releases have helped offset gas price spikes over the past year.
“Members of both parties agree that… Read more »
