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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 […]