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Last week, at a joint hearing of the California Senate Environmental Quality and Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committees, Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) announced that he will introduce language into Senate Bill 58 that will update California’s air quality standard for hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), a gas that is found at high concentrations in the Tijuana River Valley and the Salton Sea region.

Other signatories include Sen. Steve Padilla (D-Chula Vista), who introduced legislation, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, aimed at protecting minors who engage with chatbots.

This week, State Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) sent a letter to the members of the Imperial County Board of Supervisors to request further information on the rationale for the approval of the first stages of a data center application to be developed in the County.

“This technology can be a powerful educational and research tool, but left to their own devices the Tech Industry is incentivized to capture young people’s attention and hold it at the expense of their real world relationships,” said Senator Padilla on the Senate Floor just before the bill’s passage.

State Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) announced that the state Legislature has included funding for two essential hospitals in his district as part of the extension of the Nondesignated Public Hospital Bridge Loan Program. This funding aims to prevent the closure of Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe and El Centro Regional Medical Center.

On Saturday, State Senator Steve Padilla welcomed the community to an open house at his new Indio office.

Imperial County celebrated $10 million received via state Sen. Steve Padilla on Friday to continue planning efforts for Lithium Valley, a huge proposed industrial zone in the county's impoverished "Northend."

“California has a proud heritage as a home for technological vision while enforcing ethical, safe standards in concert with those values, not in opposition,” said Senator Padilla.

The bill by Sen. Steve Padilla would establish the California Latino Commission, a group tasked with making recommendations to the governor and legislature, developing initiatives, and monitoring progress in addressing disparities facing Latinos.

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“Business as usual at the border is over and done with,” said Senator Padilla. “We are fed up with corporations poisoning Californians all to make a quick buck. We must hold these polluters accountable for untold harm they have caused our community.”