SACRAMENTO – Legislation by Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, to extend funding to acquire, restore and enhance wildlife habitats across the state on Tuesday passed the Assembly.

ENCINITAS – Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, and local leaders joined together on Saturday to urge the Encinitas City Council to reject any proposal to remove core safety features along the recently completed $4.1 million western phase of the Santa Fe Drive Corridor Improvements Project.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, issued the following statement about an arrest made by federal law enforcement in Encinitas outside an elementary school that was captured on video and posted on social media.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Aug. 19, 2025) – Today lawmakers joined recyclers, businesses, environmental leaders and community advocates at the Capitol to urge Governor Newsom and CalRecycle to implement Califorina’s landmark plastic pollution and producer responsibility law, SB 54 (Allen, 2022), as written, negotiated and enacted. This comes as CalRecycle prepares its second attempt at formal rulemaking to implement the law.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, has named Algenesis Labs as Senate District 38 Small Business of the Year.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, issued the following statement about plans to redistrict congressional seats in California ahead of next year’s elections.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency proposing to repeal the scientific declaration on the dangers of greenhouse gases.

SACRAMENTO - California’s landmark plastic pollution reduction law could deliver $32 billion in net benefits and slash plastic waste by 1.9 billion pounds, according to a new state analysis that underscores what’s at stake with the upcoming implementation of Senate Bill 54 (Allen, 2022) regulations.