Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Cap-and-Trade

Bike-Share Can Get State Funding to Reach Low-Income Communities

By Melanie Curry | Jul 14, 2016 | No Comments

At its meeting a few weeks ago, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) agreed to include bike-share in its Car Sharing and Mobility Options pilot program. That means that areas that are figuring out how to get bike-share into low income areas now have a new funding option. The Car Sharing and Mobility Options program […]

The Confusion About Cap-and-Trade

By Melanie Curry | Jul 8, 2016 | 3 Comments

In “With cap and trade in doubt, key questions go unanswered,” a recent article in Cal Matters, writer Julie Cart described “a scathing bipartisan scolding” by state lawmakers of the California Air Resources Board “over a lack of transparency” with the cap-and-trade program. Legislators are talking about doing an audit. But lack of transparency may […]

Oil Lobby Pushes For Pump Labeling, Calling Cap and Trade “Hidden Tax”

By Melanie Curry | Jul 1, 2016 | 3 Comments

A few days after the largest oil lobbyist in the state told a legislative hearing that cap and trade is “the most cost-effective way to produce greenhouse gas emissions reductions,” the oil industry is trying out a new way to attack the state program. The California Independent Oil Marketers Association, a trade group for oil […]

CA Legislative Update: ATP, Bikes, and Budget

By Melanie Curry | Jun 1, 2016 | 3 Comments

California budget negotiations have moved into high gear with the naming of Senate and Assembly members to the bicameral budget conference committee. Leaders of the two bodies named five members each—up from three in previous years—and the conference committee held its first hearing this morning. The committee’s job is to find agreement among the three […]

TransForm/CalBike Summit Tackles Transportation Equity, Including Funding

By Melanie Curry | May 20, 2016 | 1 Comment

In a wide-ranging conversation at the TransForm/CalBike Equity Summit, Malcolm Dougherty kept right on saying things that advocates are not used to hearing from the director of Caltrans. He reiterated Caltrans’ commitment to its goals of tripling biking trips and doubling the number of walking trips in the state. He said that California is investing […]

Oil Industry Tries a New Tack: Blowing Smoke at CA’s Climate Change Policies

By Melanie Curry | May 18, 2016 | 1 Comment

The major lobby group for the California oil industry has launched a new, and particularly dimwitted, effort to denigrate California’s climate change policies. Californians for Affordable and Reliable Energy, or CARE, one of the Western States Petroleum Association’s front groups (as reported in Streetsblog several years ago), started a new website that purports to show […]

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