Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Jerry Brown

Brown’s Budget Proposal Weak on Sustainable Transportation

By Melanie Curry | Jan 8, 2016 | 1 Comment

Governor Jerry Brown announced his proposed state budget for 2016-17 in Sacramento yesterday. His transportation funding proposals include a few new ideas, but the budget represents precious little change to the status quo. The budget does not reflect any profound rethinking of how we fund transportation, a disappointment for those hoping for change after the recent climate change […]

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 […]

CA Legislative Leaders Pull Gas Reduction Goals, Vow to Fight On

By Melanie Curry | Sep 10, 2015 | 1 Comment

Governor Jerry Brown, Senate President Pro-Tem Kevin de Leon, and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins met with reporters late yesterday to announce that they would amend their signature climate change bill to eliminate the goal of reducing petroleum use. With only two days remaining before the legislative session ends, they say they don’t have the votes […]

CA Budget Revision Shows No Increase for Active Transportation

By Melanie Curry | May 15, 2015 | 1 Comment

Governor Jerry Brown’s “May revise” of his January budget plan, released yesterday, did not include any increases in funding for the Active Transportation Program (ATP), the main source of funds for building bicycling and pedestrian infrastructure in California. A broad coalition of over 120 advocacy organizations recently called for increasing funding for the ATP by […]

Governor Orders Ambitious GHG Goals, But No Plan on How to Meet Them

By Melanie Curry | Apr 30, 2015 | 3 Comments

California Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order calling for an ambitious response to climate change, and the media have been all over it the last two days. The order establishes a new interim greenhouse gas emission reduction goal– 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030–to help move the state towards goals for 2050, but […]