Cap-and-Trade Extension: Saving Face and Maybe the State’s Economy Too
By Leanna Sweha Yesterday, Governor Brown signed AB 398, the bill that extends Cap-and-Trade to 2030. Earlier…
Aguiar-Curry Supports Passage of Cap-and-Trade Extension to Fight Climate Change
(From Press Release) – – Today, Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) voted in strong support of landmark legislation to…
Will Getting the Grid Ready for 100 Percent Renewables Spike Electricity Bills?
By Leanna Sweha PG&E has been making improvements to its grid to meet the state’s mandate to…
Aguiar-Curry and Dodd Lead Charge to Protect California’s National Monuments
(From Press Release) – Assembly Joint Resolution 15, a bill expressing the support of the California State…
Forests Get the Short End of the State Climate Funding Stick
By Leanna Sweha One of the state’s critical climate goals is to maintain forests as net carbon…
Cap-and-Trade May Not Have Had a Chance to Work Yet
By Leanna Sweha The senate holds an oversight hearing on Cap-and-Trade this week. On the agenda are…
Cap-and-Trade 2.0 – A Lesser Version of Its Better Self?
By Leanna Sweha The Legislature is considering two bills to extend Cap-and-Trade beyond its 2020 sunset. One…
Kinda Intense: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard
By Leanna Sweha The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seems to stand in the shadow of Cap-and-Trade….
Bittersweet: The Cap-and-Trade Court Ruling and Environmental Justice
By Leanna Sweha Last week, the Third District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that…
Cal AG Issues Letter to EPA Objecting to Withdrawal of Information Request to Oil and Natural Gas Industry
(From Press Release) – Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with eight fellow attorneys general, sent a letter…
California Responds to Trump Climate Change Policies
This week President Trump, flanked by the executives of polluting companies and miners, signed his long-promised executive…
California Gets in the Driver’s Seat on Fuel Economy Standards
by Leanna Sweha The US EPA recently announced that it would reconsider national model year (MY) 2022-2025…
Preventing Leaks – That Is, the Cap-and-Trade Kind
By Leanna Sweha As engineers shore up storm-damaged dams and levees, there are other kinds of leaks…
Forget Trump – There’s an Internal Climate Change Battle Brewing
By Leanna Sweha Democrats in Sacramento are in lockstep against President Trump on climate change. At the…
Congressman John Garamendi: Congress Must Protect the EPA
by John Garamendi Last Friday, my Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives introduced a dangerous bill…
Aguiar-Curry Discusses Minimum Wage and Farm Worker Overtime in Second Part of Interview
Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an interview…
California Legislature Prepares to Fight Back, Hires Former AG Holder
In a sign of an epic showdown between California and a pending Trump Administration, Senate Leader Kevin…
Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry Talks Land Use, Economic Development
Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an interview…
Will Stricter Climate Change Rules in 2017 Propel or Choke the California Economy?
by Leanna Sweha At a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Governor Brown called on climate…
Commentary: If You Build It, We Can Overcome
When the plastic industry put the plastic bag ban on the ballot, it seemed to me unlikely…
