[Source: Los Angeles Times] Sacramento will lose 1,100 jobs over the next 18 months as rocket engine maker Aerojet Rocketdyne plans to relocate or cut positions in that facility and move jobs to Alabama, Canoga Park and other locations. The job changes are the next phase of a multiyear plan initiated in 2015 to reduce Read More…
Category: California News
CA Legislature passes Gov. Brown’s $52B plan to fix roads, hike gas taxes
[Source: KABC News/Associated Press] The California Legislature has approved Gov. Jerry Brown’s $52 billion plan to fix the state’s roads through an increase in gas taxes and other vehicle fees. The measure squeezed by in a late-night vote Thursday by the Assembly, hitting the two-thirds threshold without a single vote to spare. The governor’s 10-year Read More…
California air regulators vote to keep tough fuel standards
[Source: Associated Press] California air regulators voted Friday to keep the state’s tough vehicle emissions standards through 2025. The state Air Resources Board voted unanimously at a meeting in Riverside to continue with the standards for 2022 to 2025 after reaching a conclusion similar to one by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama Read More…
California adopts strictest methane rule in the nation
[Source: The San Diego Union Tribune] As expected, California officials on Thursday night passed what is considered the nation’s strictest rule aimed at curbing emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved the measure on a unanimous vote at a meeting in Riverside. “The Trump administration has backed away Read More…
Trump won’t seek to roll back California vehicle authority
[Source: Reuters] President Donald Trump will announce the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will revive a review of the feasibility of strict fuel efficiency standards through 2025, but will not seek to withdraw California’s authority to set its own vehicle rules, a White House official said late on Tuesday. Reuters reported on Monday the administration planned Read More…
California to fight if EPA eases emissions rule
[Source: San Francisco Chronicle] The Trump administration is expected to start rolling back tough limits on carbon pollution from cars and trucks this week, and may be considering a plan to revoke California’s authority to set its own pollution standards for vehicles, a linchpin of the state’s effort to battle climate change. Environmental Protection Agency Read More…
State lawmakers consider new bill to increase gas tax for road repairs
[Source: ABC10 / KXTV] Take a deep breath — California lawmakers are still considering raising the tax on gas in order to fund repairs to roads and highways. California drivers in 2016 paid the fifth highest excise tax on gasoline in the country, according to the Tax Foundation. The Golden state was behind Hawaii (#4), Read More…
California won’t meet its climate change goals without a lot more housing density in its cities
[Source: Los Angeles Times] To meet the bold new climate change goals put in place last year, California will work to put millions of electric cars on the road, revolutionize its dairy industry and generate half of all power from solar panels and other renewable sources. But those efforts will come up short, warn state Read More…
California exports its poor to Texas, other states, while wealthier people move in
[Source: The Sacramento Bee] California exports more than commodities such as movies, new technologies and produce. It also exports truck drivers, cooks and cashiers. Every year from 2000 through 2015, more people left California than moved in from other states. This migration was not spread evenly across all income groups, a Sacramento Bee review of Read More…