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Kristine Rebiero, CalCAN Communications & Development Manager
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RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE

including CalCAN advisors and partners

California has a golden opportunity to fund climate smart agriculture, Op-ed, Sacramento Bee | April 2025

“The legislature has a once-in-a-decade opportunity this year to reallocate our state’s climate funding, arguably our last chance to get this formula right before the worst impacts of climate change take hold. I urge the legislature to commit 15% of the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, on a continuous basis, to fund climate smart agriculture programs. Our state’s farmers and ranchers are ready to lead on climate action. Let’s have their backs.” – Liz Carlisle, CalCAN Advisor

Purge of federal support jolts agriculture, Agri-Pulse | February 2025

Several CalCAN Advisors quoted.

Newsom leans on climate bond to shore up ag and water spending in state budget, Agri-Pulse | January 2025

“Without Prop. 4, California’s food and farming systems would be facing another year of significant underinvestment,” said Brian Shobe, a CalCAN policy director.

Sonoma County farmers celebrate Measure J defeat, Ag Alert | November 2024

“Sonoma County is home to some of California’s best agricultural stewards,” Renata Brillinger, executive director of the California Climate and Agriculture Network, said in a statement. Nearly all the dairies that were targeted by Measure J as large CAFOs are family-owned, pasture-based farms.

While policy falls short, California farmers brace themselves against wildfire, Agri-Pulse | November 2024

“At the 2024 California Climate & Agriculture Summit hosted by the California Climate and Agricultural Network, or CalCAN, Schohr led a panel on the alternative treatments ranchers and producers are undertaking to protect their land and animals from fire and how agencies are coordinating to make those efforts easier.”

Proposition 4 climate bond seeks to avoid future costs with current investment, Press Democrat | October 2024

“Across the board, the climate crisis we’re facing is going to be very, very expensive the longer we wait to deal with it,“ said Renata Brillinger, executive director of the California Climate and Agriculture Network, or CalCAN.