Representative Mike Garcia’s (CA-27) Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts Act passed the House on a bipartisan basis. This bill was included in H.R. 6093, the Weather Act Reauthorization Act of 2023, and would improve the forecasting of atmospheric rivers - powerful storms that carry the risk of severe flooding and snowfall that caused substantial damage across California this year. Read more »

Representative Mike Garcia’s (CA-27) Fire Weather Development Act passed the House on a bipartisan basis. This legislation would improve our ability to forecast and detect wildfires and streamline communication during emergency events to better support communities vulnerable to wildfires. Read more »

As part of the federal government’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget process, Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, has secured $2.1 million in funding to the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency for the agency’s treatment project planned to remove “forever chemicals” from local groundwater, SCV Water announced in a news release. Read more »

The move comes as Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, sent a bipartisan letter co-signed by a Ventura County member of Congress and several state lawmakers, urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency over the landfill. He has pushed for its closure this week while it works through its problems. Read more »

Bipartisan, bicameral legislation was introduced by Representatives Mike Garcia (CA-27) and Haley Stevens (MI-11), along with Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Alex Padilla (D-CA), with the goal of facilitating cybersecurity and telecommunications upgrades for the 17 oceanographic vessels that make up the U.S. Academic Research Fleet (ARF). Read more »

Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, called on Chiquita Canyon Landfill to cease operations while the facility addresses its growing problems, during a virtual address to the landfill’s Community Advisory Committee on Tuesday night, acknowledging county and state regulators’ growing frustration over problems at the Castaic facility. Read more »

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found the Chiquita Canyon Landfill to present imminent and substantial endangerment to nearby communities. The EPA subsequently ordered Chiquita Canyon LLC to take immediate steps to protect human health and the environment at its landfill in Castaic, California. Read more »

Representatives Mike Garcia (R-CA) and Jay Obernolte (R-CA) introduced the Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts Act, which would establish a program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve the forecasting of atmospheric rivers, powerful storms that carry the risk of severe flooding and snowfall that caused substantial damage across the state this year. Read more »

Representative Mike Garcia (CA-27) introduced the Helping Invest in Key Environments (HIKE) Act, which would expand the Santa Monica Mountain National Recreation Area to include large parts of the Rim of the Valley corridor. Read more »

In case you missed it, Representative Mike Garcia (CA-27) wrote an op-ed in the Santa Clarita Valley Signal on Saturday responding to Governor Gavin Newsom’s legislative push in Sacramento to punish energy providers for price gouging, a claim that is unsubstantiated and untrue. Read more »