Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Cap-and-Trade

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 […]

CalBike Proposes Rebate Program for the Ultimate ZEV

By Melanie Curry | Feb 17, 2016 | 4 Comments

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? Well, obviously, a bicycle. So why doesn’t the California Air Resources Board (ARB), which is spending millions of dollars on incentives and rebates to get people to buy zero-emission […]

BoE Vice Chair George Runner Wants to Kill Public Transportation

By Melanie Curry | Feb 16, 2016 | 12 Comments

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. In an article in Saturday’s Sacramento Bee he opines that the state is wasting money on public transportation that nobody wants, and […]

California Cap-and-Trade Is “Officially a Success”

By Melanie Curry | Nov 10, 2015 | No Comments

Last week, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) officially dubbed the state’s cap-and-trade system “a success.” Cap-and-trade, which began in January 2013, places a cap on emissions from industries in California, and then auctions off emission “credits” to companies that pollute, thus creating billions of dollars that can be invested in further greenhouse gases reductions. […]

CA Revising Affordable Housing & Sustainable Communities Guidelines

By Melanie Curry | Oct 22, 2015 | 1 Comment

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. The AHSC receives funding from California’s cap-and-trade system, and is the […]

Another Fact-Free Attack on California Climate Change Bills

By Melanie Curry | Sep 2, 2015 | 1 Comment

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 […]

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