California’s decades-long role as a climate action pioneer is facing serious headwinds. While the Trump administration and its allies have launched a full-scale attack on clean technologies, state leaders are also wrestling with an electorate now more focused on lowering prices than environmental protection. Energy costs stand in the middle. This dynamic is playing out … Continue reading "Leveraging Cap-And-Trade Proceeds for Long-Term Utility Bill Savings and Pollution Reduction"| Legal Planet
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a series of bills to enact the state budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, a $321 billion spending plan that erased a projected $12 billion deficit largely through delayed cuts and dollars borrowed from a variety of state special funds.| CalChamber Alert
Experts shaping California’s environmental future came to Sacramento earlier this month to present a briefing on their groundbreaking studies examining efforts to reduce carbon emissions.| CalChamber Alert
This post is adaped from my essay yesterday on Streetsblog USA, A Lesson for NYC’s Congestion Pricing Came Last Week from Washington State. It was posted on the eve of NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s announcement today that she has ended her June “pause” and authorized New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to begin implementing a scaled-down […]| Carbon Tax Center
Washington voters on Tuesday were rejecting a ballot measure to repeal a law that's generated billions of dollars to fight climate change.| Washington State Standard
The release of our final report yesterday highlighted Canada’s options for bridging the gap to its 2030 targets. Bottom line? There are only a finite number of approaches. We have regulations, subsidies, and carbon pricing. But the details of how governments design and implement those policies matters just as much as the choice of approach. […] The post Can we improve the efficiency of carbon pricing and regulations? appeared first on Canada's Ecofiscal Commission.| Canada's Ecofiscal Commission
Last week, in response to the results of the federal election, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs announced he would look at options for implementing a carbon price in his province. It’s a policy shift that embraces a core principle of the Pan-Canadian Framework: provinces creating their own, tailored approach to pricing carbon. A made-in-New-Brunswick approach […] The post New Brunswick embraces carbon pricing; it should choose wisely appeared first on Canada's Ecofiscal Commission.| Canada's Ecofiscal Commission
The Western Business Roundtable doesn’t care for Cap and Trade (the politician’s tool of choice for reducing carbon emissions). In fact, it is hard to believe that the organization gives much weigh…| Legal Planet has moved!
