Cap-and-Trade
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CA Transportation Funding Should Reflect State Goals
Transportation funding in California has, as SBCA readers must know by now, reached a “crisis.” Shrinking gas tax revenues, combined with an increasing reliance on local sales taxes limited to specific transportation projects, have left our overbuilt and under-maintained highways, roads, and bridges without enough funds to keep them in a basic state of good repair.
April 7, 2016
A Few Bad Bills
The California legislature is back from spring recess and the process of hearing and arguing about bills is beginning in earnest. In the next few days, Streetsblog California will talk about some exciting bills coming up that may need your support.
March 31, 2016
Mapping the Benefits of California Climate Change Policy
TransForm has updated and relaunched its Climate Benefits map, adding new data and a video about California's climate investments. The map now includes a user-friendly “tour” to help people understand and search for data on where California's cap-and-trade revenue goes.
March 1, 2016
CA Must Align Tax and Climate Change Policies, Says UC Professor
California's tax policies are at odds with its climate change policies, said UC Berkeley Professor Karen Chapple in a talk yesterday at the University of California Center in Sacramento. The current tax structure encourages big-box development and sprawl, she said, while making it difficult to build infill and high-density developments that could reduce auto dependence and greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.
February 25, 2016
CA Legislature Wrestles With How Best to Invest Climate Funds
As the California legislative session revs up, several committees have been holding oversight hearings on the state's cap-and-trade system.
February 19, 2016
CalBike Proposes Rebate Program for the Ultimate ZEV
What vehicle produces no emissions, uses no fossil fuels, is easily maintained, costs little, gets you where you want to go quickly, and improves your health?
February 17, 2016
BoE Vice Chair George Runner Wants to Kill Public Transportation
George Runner, former California Senator, husband of current California Senator Sharon Runner, and current elected member of the California Board of Equalization, is doing his best to kill public transportation in the state.
February 16, 2016
California Cap-and-Trade Is “Officially a Success”
Last week, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) officially dubbed the state's cap-and-trade system “a success.”
November 10, 2015
CA Revising Affordable Housing & Sustainable Communities Guidelines
The California Strategic Growth Council is in the midst of a series of public workshops to help it revise guidelines for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program. There are two workshops left: one in Oakland tomorrow and one in Fresno on Monday.
October 22, 2015
Another Fact-Free Attack on California Climate Change Bills
There's been a lot of media noise about ongoing efforts to pass new climate change legislation in California before the rapidly approaching deadline. One particular op-ed in the Orange County Register adds nothing useful to the debate, but as one of several efforts lately that have been working very hard to obscure facts, it deserves a wagging finger of shame.
September 2, 2015