Climate Change
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A Cap-and-Trade Primer Based on California’s Experience
To help focus the conversation at the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bonn, the Environmental Defense Fund has prepared a quick fact sheet on cap-and-trade.
November 8, 2017
Strategic Growth Council Narrows List of Potential TCC Grants
The Transformative Climate Communities grant program aims to encourage neighborhood-level plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing local economic, environmental, and health benefits to disadvantaged communities. The Strategic Growth Council will award approximately $140 million in TCC grants.
November 2, 2017
Commentary: Driving Deeper into the Climate Crisis
We need to set a new path away from a carbon-based economy rooted in extraction and exploitation to a just transition economy anchored in sustainability
November 2, 2017
U.S. DOT Gets Swept Up in Trump’s Climate Denial Binge
You have until November 6 to urge U.S. DOT to preserve climate accountability in transportation policy.
October 18, 2017
Governor Signs Bill to Bring Accountability to Regional Climate Change Plans
S.B. 150 aligns local and regional greenhouse gas reduction targets with state targets, creates a community-driven process on how to measure progress, and requires regular reports on progress, success--and challenges met along the way.
October 11, 2017
California Joins Seven Other States in Lawsuit Over Clean Transportation Rules
Eight states, California among them, filed a lawsuit this week challenging the Trump administration decision to suspend a rule that requires transportation projects to measure and report on the greenhouse gas emissions they produce.
September 22, 2017
Cap-and-Trade Funding Will Go For Electric Vehicles, Other Programs–But Not Transit Passes
CA approved cap-and-trade spending last week - unfortunately there's a lot for electric cars and not so much for transit.
September 19, 2017
Report: CA Emissions Shrinking—Except for Transportation
Californians need to drive less. Policy makers shy away from regulating driving, so herein: a few suggestions. Discuss.
August 23, 2017
SPUR Talk: Achieving Local Climate Goals
Heavy rains, floods, forest fires, sea level rise are the new normal, warned the Union of Concerned Scientists at SPUR. And it's only going to get worse. What can local and state governments do?
August 11, 2017
CTC Starting to Focus on Details of How to Invest S.B. 1 in Transportation System
Right now and for the next few months, California has a huge opportunity to shift its transportation investment to create a system that works for everybody.
June 27, 2017
