My View: Fires, Heat, the New Normal under Climate Change Sinks In
Last week I was visiting my folks in San Luis Obispo. After finishing the Vanguard, I prepared…
Monday Morning Thoughts: What Happens When It Comes Here?
Yesterday I had a terrifying reminder of just how vulnerable we actually are. As I drove over…
California’s Got a New Plan to Hit Its 2030 Emissions Target – but, Are We Aiming at the Right Target?
By Leanna Sweha The Air Resources Board just adopted its 2030 Scoping Plan. The 2030 goal –…
Sunday Commentary: We Ignore the Link Between Local Land Use Policies and Climate Change at Our Own Peril
Today is the end of 2017 and, in many ways, 2017 was not a good year on…
Agriculture (Finally) Scores Some Serious State Climate Funding
By Leanna Sweha Governor Brown last week signed two bills sending almost $1.5 billion in cap-and-trade auction…
To Tackle Climate Change and Grow the State Economy, Let’s Improve the Business Climate
By Leanna Sweha On Thursday, the legislature held a hearing on how to promote a “just transition”…
Major Climate Study Leaked Among Concerns of Trump Admin Suppression
“The last few years have also seen record-breaking, climate-related, weather extremes, as well as 30 of the…
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…
Davis, Sacramento Temps to Rise over 8 Degrees by 2100
by Jerika L.H. New research by Climate Central has given a bleak projection for the future of…
California Responds to Trump Pulling out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement
President Trump made the announcement that most were expecting, that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris…
Climate Catastrophe and the Legacy of UC Students
(Editor’s note: the writer is a UC Davis student who has requested to submit this anonymously) –…
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…
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…
