Minutes after a bipartisan coalition of California lawmakers voted to extend the state’s landmark climate change policy for another decade, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown stood in front of a bank of television cameras and compared the plan to one championed 30 years ago by GOP icon Ronald Reagan…
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In a stunning bipartisan victory, the California legislature on Monday evening passed AB 398, a bill to extend the state’s centerpiece cap-and-trade program to 2030, after several weeks of intense negotiations and pleas led by Gov. Jerry Brown…
California’s signature initiative to fight global warming will get another decade of life after lawmakers from both parties joined Gov. Jerry Brown in extending the law credited with reducing the state’s carbon footprint…
Gov. Jerry Brown’s bid to keep California’s cap-and-trade system — a key weapon against global warming — running through 2030 won the approval Monday night of state legislators, by the narrowest of margins…
California lawmakers voted Monday evening to extend the state’s premier program on climate change, a victory for Gov. Jerry Brown that included unprecedented Republican support for fighting global warming. In a break with party leaders and activists in California and Washington, eight Republicans joined with Democrats to continue the cap-and-trade program, which requires companies to buy permits to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere…
Limiting state board and local air district authority to pass carbon dioxide regulations from refineries and industrial sources…
The state Legislature is currently considering a two-part proposal to extend the California greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program and target local air pollution reductions across California…
In a hard-wrought victory for Gov. Jerry Brown and top Democratic lawmakers, the California Legislature late Monday pulled off a political triumph: passing with a supermajority vote a proposal to extend California’s signature program for regulating global-warming greenhouse gases through the end of 2030…
California lawmakers voted Monday to renew the state’s milestone climate legislation, ending uncertainty about the fate of a cap-and-trade program criticized by both liberals and conservatives..
California lawmakers voted Monday to extend a cap-and-trade program until 2030, ending a legislative standoff that had threatened a critical component of the state’s pioneering efforts to reduce climate-altering emissions…