Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Cap-and-Trade

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The Yurok Tribe Is Using California’s Carbon Offset Program to Buy Back Its Land

By Abaki Beck | Apr 21, 2021 | No Comments

With income from sequestering carbon in its forests, the tribe has supported youth programming, housing, road improvement, and businesses development.

By Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz/Yes! Magazine, 2020. For sources see article cited

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California’s Efforts to Reduce Pollution, Greenhouse Gases Are Inextricable from Environmental Justice

By Melanie Curry | Nov 24, 2020 | No Comments

Yes! Magazine offers a short history and explainer for cap-and-trade and its EJ issues

Protest in Marin, June 2020. Photo by Daniel Arauz

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California Agencies Begin to Grapple With Racial Equity and Environmental Justice

By Melanie Curry | Oct 29, 2020 | No Comments

California Air Resources Board hosts heated exchange over perceived lack of transparency on racial justice statement; other state agencies moving towards learning about dismantling their racist structures

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Working on a Project That Can Reduce Greenhouse Gases? Mark Your Calendar

By Melanie Curry | Oct 21, 2020 | No Comments

California Air Resources Board is about to launch a series of webinars tailored to potential applicants for cap-and-trade funding.

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A.B. 617: Plans for Monitoring, Improving Local Air Quality Move Along – at a Glacial Pace

By Melanie Curry | Sep 9, 2020 | No Comments

Meetings tomorrow will consider emission reduction plans for Long Beach, San Bernardino, and East L.A. areas.

City of Moreno Valley, in the Inland Empire. Image from Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce

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Moreno Valley Hopes to Buy Its Way Out of Reducing Emissions from Proposed Megawarehouse

By Melanie Curry | Jul 28, 2020 | No Comments

The developer and city have claimed variously that: they do not have to estimate, analyze, or manage emissions because CA cap-and-trade program is responsible; then, that they would buy offsets through CA's cap-and-trade program; then, that they would buy offsets on the international market.

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