California's greenhouse gas emission targets are getting tougher
Gov. Jerry Brown ramped up his efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, issuing an executive order Wednesday morning with more ambitious targets for California. Gov. Jerry Brown's executive order on...
View ArticleGov. Brown, legislative Democrats scale back climate package
With little time and opposition from oil interests, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats were forced on Wednesday to retreat from their ambitious proposal to address climate change by dropping a...
View ArticleCalifornia ramps up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Building on California's ambitious effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday called on the state to further slash its carbon footprint over the next 15 years. Brown set a...
View ArticleAnother environmental bill takes a hit in Sacramento
The push for aggressive new California policies on climate change suffered another major setback Thursday. Legislation to require the state to reduce its carbon emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by...
View ArticleCalifornia governor looks to extend climate-change efforts
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown has launched a campaign to extend some of the most ambitious climate-change programs in the country and ensure his environmental legacy when he...
View ArticleDemand sags for California credits aimed at greenhouse gases
California's latest carbon auction brought disappointing results Tuesday as litigation and lagging support by lawmakers weigh down the state's landmark programs combating climate change. State...
View ArticleWhy doesn’t California’s climate-change effort solve riddle of cap-and-trade?
The sound of applause has scarcely died down in the Capitol after last week’s vote to significantly expand California’s requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Proponents who steered the...
View ArticleDemand low for California pollution credits
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's latest carbon auction brought disappointing results Tuesday as litigation and lagging support by lawmakers weigh down the state's landmark programs combating climate...
View ArticleCalifornia Passes Toughest Greenhouse Gas Emission Curbs
California is poised to make the nation’s strictest carbon emission controls even tougher, with a bill to cut greenhouse-gas discharges to 40 percent less than 1990 levels by 2030 now headed to...
View ArticleLawmakers, governor debate climate-change spending
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democratic legislative leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown are divided over whether to divvy up more than $1 billion collected from carbon auctions or retain it as an enticing...
View ArticleCalifornia lawmakers approve extension of climate change law
California lawmakers voted Wednesday to extend the state's landmark climate change law — the most aggressive in the nation — by another 10 years, resisting fierce opposition from oil companies and...
View ArticleCalifornia is about to extend the nation's most ambitious climate change law
California has suffered from severe drought. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown is set to extend the nation's most ambitious climate change law by another 10 years on Thursday as California charts a...
View ArticleCalifornia to extend most ambitious US climate change law
Gov. Jerry Brown is set to extend the nation's most ambitious climate change law by another 10 years on Thursday as California charts a new goal to reduce carbon pollution. The Democratic governor...
View ArticleGov. Jerry Brown to sign emissions-cutting climate bills at LA park
LOS ANGELES — Gov. Jerry Brown will be in Los Angeles today to sign into law legislation that dramatically extends the state’s goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At a ceremony at Vista...
View ArticleCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown Signs New Climate Change Laws
Enlarge this image California State Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, holds a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, setting a new goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by...
View ArticleIndustry groups stir opposition to a cap-and-trade expansion they say will...
In a conference call with oil industry analysts in late 2012, Mike Wirth, a Chevron Corp. executive, took stock of California’s greenhouse gas reduction policies and warned that the state’s plan to...
View ArticleCalifornia climate bills a mixed bag
With just two days left in the legislative session, two bills that would solidify California’s — and Gov. Jerry Brown’s — leadership on slowing climate change remain in limbo. The first, Senate Bill...
View ArticleFlorida’s case of climate denial: A tale of two governors
When Charlie Crist was Florida’s attorney general and preparing to run for governor in 2005, he sat down in a private room at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami with U.S. Sen. John McCain. McCain was gearing...
View ArticleCalifornia's climate fight comes down to late negotiations
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Jerry Brown has made climate change the centerpiece of his final tenure by laying out the most aggressive benchmark in North America, which would reduce California's...
View ArticleRevisions are on tap for climate change legislation
With climate change legislation facing a tough road in the Assembly, top state senators are planning amendments intended to alleviate concerns that California's air regulator is gaining too much power....
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