Today the California Air Resources Board will vote on a proposed policy to pay foreign states and provinces to sequester California’s industrial CO2 emissions in their tropical forests. Citing a decade’s worth of failed forest carbon projects, a coalition of environmental justice organizations, Indigenous Peoples’ representatives, green groups, academics and international forest-dwelling people have come to Sacramento to tell CARB to reject the policy, known as the Tropical Forest Standard (TFS)….
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Which power plant in your region is the worst polluter and who lives nearby? A new interactive, map-based website launching today (November 15) allows users to explore and analyze data on power plants by viewing information such as location, operations and emissions — alone or in relation to other data, including local demographics and environmental justice indicators….
Leaders from Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and California reject state Air Resources Board’s proposed forest carbon credit scheme…
“Safe, clean and affordable” drinking water is enshrined in California law as a basic human right…
The National Weather Service says Modesto-area residents should expect to see smoke in the atmosphere for the rest of the week as firefighters continue to battle the Camp Fire in Butte County. An inversion layer, which is warm air that acts like a lid, continues to trap smoke throughout the Northern San Joaquin Valley, according to the weather service. The lid creates poor air quality and poor visibility….
Nov 8 A constitutional climate lawsuit filed in Oregon federal court in 2015 by a group of young Americans against the U.S. government is on hold again after a federal appeals court on Thursday granted the Trump administration’s motion for a temporary stay…
This fall, the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) adopted its first measures under the Community Air Protection Program (“CAPP”), which focuses on reducing exposure to air pollution in the most vulnerable communities in California…
Backers mourned the loss of Proposition 3 on Wednesday, the nearly $9 billion bond measure that would have modernized old dams, restored tainted watersheds and created desalination plants, among dozens of other water projects throughout the state…
The California Democratic Party no longer accepts donations from the oil industry, viewing that as politically unsavory for a party pushing to curb climate change. But that hasn’t stopped oil companies from spending millions to help California Democrats win on Tuesday…
In the late 1970s, emission reduction credit (ERC) programs emerged from federal Clean Air Act efforts to address significant air pollution problems. The programs were based on the notion that some form of incentive, or quasi-market based mechanism, could leverage additional emissions reductions for less cost, beyond the reductions achieved through direct regulatory efforts. California’s program came into being as part of this effort.