Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about CA Air Resources Board (CARB)

UC Davis Professor Dan Sperling called for convening a wide range of stakeholders in a discussion of funding priorities so that California's climate change goals are not ignored. Image: Screengrab from Cal-SPAN

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Air Resources Board: CA Needs to Align Transportation Funding With Climate Goals

By Melanie Curry | Mar 27, 2017 | 24 Comments

“We have an ongoing discussion in this state that needs to be resolved,” said ARB chair Mary Nichols. “Whenever you add capacity to existing roads, it does create induced demand, and it fills up immediately.”

Climate Plan's report outlines some of the strategies needed to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets. Setting the targets is up for discussion tomorrow at the Air Resources Board.

Air Resources Board to Discuss Greenhouse Emission Targets Today

By Melanie Curry | Mar 22, 2017 | 3 Comments

More ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets are needed, but regional governments say they can't meet them without more aggressive changes--which they say they don't have the power to impose.

What the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards could achieve, if they were allowed to do their job. Image from the old Whitehouse.gov (archived)

California Sues to Defend Auto Emission Rules

By Melanie Curry | Mar 16, 2017 | 1 Comment

Governor Brown didn't mince words. The decision to "weaken emission standards in cars is an unconscionable gift to polluters," he wrote. "Once again, you’ve put the interests of big oil ahead of clean air and politics ahead of science."

The health effects of increased physical activity as a result of climate change policies have an economic value. Image: CARB

CARB Considers Alternatives to Cap-and-Trade

By Melanie Curry | Feb 16, 2017 | 8 Comments

The California Air Resources Board will postpone its decision on strategies to meet 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets until June. Staff presented a proposed alternative to cap-and-trade that at least one listener called a "straw man."

California's greenhouse gas emissions targets will require a steep reduction in emissions from all sectors. Image from ARB 2030 Draft Scoping Plan.

CA Air Resources Board Releases Draft Plan for Extending Emission Targets

By Melanie Curry | Dec 2, 2016 | 3 Comments

The California Air Resources Board thinks that cap-and-trade is the best way to reach greenhouse gas emission reduction targets set by the state, and is formulating a plan to extend it beyond 2020.

Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) addresses the media after the passage of S.B. 32 in August. She’s flanked by Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), Governor Jerry Brown, and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon, from left. Image courtesy Fran Pavley’s office.

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Interview With Out-Going Climate Champion, State Senator Fran Pavley

By Melanie Curry | Nov 28, 2016 | No Comments

California can be a model for the rest of the country and the world on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, grow the economy, and encourage healthy public debate---thanks to legislation authored by outgoing Senator Fran Pavley.

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