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California Legislative Update: Bikes, Transit, Environmental Justice, More

By Melanie Curry | Apr 22, 2016 | 3 Comments

Today is the deadline to pass any policy bills that have a fiscal impact out of all California legislative committees, so the last two weeks have seen a flurry of long hearings. Here’s a quick recap of pertinent bills. BIKES Riding side-by-side is okay: Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) has a bill, A.B. 2509, that […]

A Few Bad Bills

By Melanie Curry | Mar 31, 2016 | 2 Comments

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. But first, we’ll take a quick look at a few bills that are not […]

CA Legislature Wrestles With How Best to Invest Climate Funds

By Melanie Curry | Feb 19, 2016 | 4 Comments

As the California legislative session revs up, several committees have been holding oversight hearings on the state’s cap-and-trade system. Last week, the Senate Environmental Quality and the Select Committee on Climate Change and AB 32 Implementation held a joint hearing to discuss California’s successful worldwide leadership on climate change issues. In that hearing, the committee […]

A State Legislator Is Really Proposing to Slash Fines for Running a Red Light to Turn Right

By Damien Newton and Roger Rudick | Jan 28, 2016 | 10 Comments

State Senator Jerry Hill (D-Millbrae) has been earning a lot of attention recently for a proposal to slash the fine for drivers turning right at a red light without stopping. This move seems particularly heartless considering California’s streak of leading the country in traffic fatalities, nearly a quarter of which were pedestrians. Failure to yield […]

State Releases Proposed Rules That Would Finally End LOS in Enviro. Law

By Damien Newton | Jan 22, 2016 | 9 Comments

Earlier today, the State of California released its anticipated final draft set of changes to the state’s environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Under the new CEQA rule, environmental studies will use measurements that better correspond to actual environmental costs and benefits. This realigns the CEQA process to foster better transit, more walking and bicycling, and […]

Governor Brown Signs Clean Energy Bill

By Melanie Curry | Oct 7, 2015 | 1 Comment

With the slightly smoggy skyline of Los Angeles as backdrop, Governor Jerry Brown today signed S.B. 350, the bill that codifies many of the climate change goals he outlined last January. The new state law, authored by Senators Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) and Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), mandates two goals for the state: to […]

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