Environmental justice advocates have long warned that “cap-and-trade” — a market-based strategy to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions — could hurt low-income communities of color…
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From promoting equitable land use to innovative climate investments, these 5 bills take bold steps for environmental justice in statewide policy and continue California’s leadership on cutting edge solutions to climate change…
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. yesterday signed legislation that directs $900 million in cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs that benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems…
Yesterday, Governor Brown signed new laws to boost climate change spending in California’s lowincome communities of color…
While we are thrilled with the ground-breaking number of bills we were able to pass through the legislature, our work is far from over…
As children are heading back to school across California this month, they are confronted with the reality that hazardous agricultural pesticides are sprayed right outside classroom windows, with few safeguards in place…
Pastor studied the distribution of co-pollutant emissions among companies registered under AB 32’s cap-and-trade program for a report released Wednesday.
California Gov. Jerry Brown approved a package of climate-change and clean-air bills during a signing ceremony in Fresno Wednesday, including the allocation of $900 million from the state’s struggling cap-and-trade program…
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed legislation that directs $900 million in cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs that benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems…
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed legislation that directs $900 million in cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs that benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems…