[W]hen we debate the extension of our market-based cap-and-trade program, as we did last week on a failed bill, we cannot let the debate act as a referendum on legislators’ commitment to clean air and environmental justice…
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It seemed like a sure bet for another display of California’s ultra-blue “Resistance”: Fresh with outrage over President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the Democratic-dominated California Assembly considered a bill to curb both global warming and air pollution…
Californians who watched cable news on Thursday before, during or after Trump’s error-ridden Rose Garden speech, kept hearing—from Senator Rand Paul, from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, and from Trump himself—that the Paris climate agreement was a “bad deal” for Americans…
Gov. Jerry Brown is promoting California’s cap-and-trade program to combat climate change on the national and global stage…
Late Thursday night, the California Assembly voted down two closely watched proposals — one to extend the state’s signature cap-and-trade program, while incorporating local air quality, and another to overhaul the bail-bonds system…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was one of dozens of mayors denouncing President Donald Trump’s move today to pull the country out of the Paris climate agreement…
CCEJN wants to welcome our new organizer, Cesar G. Aguirre…
Gov. Jerry Brown lashed out on Thursday at President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from an historic agreement on climate change, calling it wrong on both economic and environmental fronts…
Matthew Morgenstern is convinced his Hodgkin’s lymphoma was caused by exposure to toxic coal ash from the massive dump right across the road from SCI Fayette, a maximum-security prison in LaBelle, Pennsylvania, where he is currently serving a 5- to 10-year sentence…
California has moved a step closer to adopting a 100% clean energy standard…