Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Cap-and-Trade

The California Transportation Commission began the process of allocating funds from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund at its monthly meeting on Friday. The first official allocations for the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program went to Sacramento, LA’s MetroLink, and San Diego for projects that will allow them to offer better transit service, thus encouraging […]

Kudos to the LA Times for explaining in an op-ed piece today why money from California’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) should be not used for repairing roads. That proposal has been part of a strategy suggested by Republican members of the legislature for funding transportation, because they think using the money from cap-and-trade, which […]

The California Air Resources Board announced a series of public workshops that will address two subjects pertaining to cap-and-trade auction proceeds. First is the question of what programs and projects should be funded by cap-and-trade in the future. By law, the auction proceeds must be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and a portion must […]

Each time California legislators consider its climate change policies, questions arise about what benefits the state is receiving for its current investments. Until today, there has been no centralized source of data on the state’s investments from its cap-and-trade program nor on resulting greenhouse gas emissions or other benefits. Now there is. TransForm, a nonprofit […]