Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Cap-and-Trade

Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Projects Funded by SGC

By Melanie Curry | Oct 11, 2016 | 3 Comments

Today the Strategic Growth Council approved 25 projects for funding under the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program. All of them combine affordable housing development and transportation improvements for either transit, walking, biking, or a combination of all three modes. The council also briefly discussed preliminary rulemaking for a new program, the Transformative Climate […]

Active Transportation Program Gets a Little More Money, With a Few Strings

By Melanie Curry | Oct 7, 2016 | 5 Comments

The most recent cap-and-trade allocation bill, A.B. 1613, allots $10 million to the Active Transportation Program. The money comes with a few strings attached. Any projects funded by cap-and-trade have to show that they reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Also, the money must be allocated by 2018 and spent by 2020. This is not likely to […]

CA Celebrates Ten Years of Finding—and Applying—Climate Change Solutions

By Melanie Curry | Oct 5, 2016 | 1 Comment

The USC Schwarzenegger Institute held a small congratulatory celebration of the tenth anniversary of A.B. 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, at the California Museum in Sacramento today. A roster of luminaries who participated in the state’s efforts to pass climate change law honored California leadership in rising above politics as usual to win not […]

Cap-and-Trade May Not Be Working

By Melanie Curry | Sep 26, 2016 | 16 Comments

At last week’s California Air Resources Board hearing to discuss its plan for meeting climate change goals, the cap-and-trade system that has underpinned much of the state’s efforts got raked over the coals. But not by the industries subject to the emissions cap. Instead, representatives of the communities that are supposed to benefit from investments […]

Report: For Best Results, Address Equity and Climate Change Together

By Melanie Curry | Sep 13, 2016 | 2 Comments

California Governor Jerry Brown just signed major new climate change legislation, and people will be grappling for a while with what the new laws will mean on the ground—and how California will be able to achieve its new greenhouse gas reduction targets. Tomorrow, several state agencies will be tackling the question of how to reach […]

Governor Brown Signs Legislation Extending CA Climate Change Targets

By Joe Linton | Sep 8, 2016 | 4 Comments

In a signing ceremony at Vista Hermosa Park in Los Angeles today, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation extending state climate change targets through at least 2030. The governor was joined by key legislators who shepherded the legislation’s approval. These included Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin De Leon, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senator Fran Pavley, Assemblymember […]

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