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…
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…
Letters to Aguiar-Curry and Dodd on Moving to a Green Economy and Fracking
Dear Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry and Senator Dodd: The Davis community has been engaged in a series of gatherings…
A Triple Threat to Science
By Tia Will I believe the new administration in Washington embodies a rejection of science that is…
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…
DAPL Confrontation Likely Back On as New President Shifts Policies
Back in December, then-President Barack Obama handed a major victory for thousands of protesters and Indigenous People,…
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…
Hexter Urges Climate Action by Trump and Congress
(From Press Release) – Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter and the leaders of the other nine UC…
What’s Happening in the Arctic, Is Not Staying in the Arctic
Tipping Points to Collapse By Debra Chase “The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Climate Change Policies in Doubt?
Back in September, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climate change policy. …
Latest Climate Change Spending Plan is a Hard Sell for Some Democrats
Effectiveness and Fairness of Programs Questioned By Leanna Sweha Governor Brown signed a bill last week to…
Monday Morning Thoughts: What Does Progressive Mean in Davis These Days?
For years Davis prided itself on being on the forefront of progressivism – a mixture of land…
My View: California Passes Climate Change Policy with Teeth
This week Governor Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climate change policy. The legislation…
The Shrinking Life of Krill
By Debra Chase Krill is said to be the largest biomass on the planet, outweighing the human…
Troubling Headlines Show Climate Change Is Moving Faster than Predicted
By Debra Chase Some of the worst impacts of climate change that were thought to be events…
World Heritage Sites in Danger
By Debra Chase “The supreme reality of our time is…the vulnerability of our planet.” When President John…