[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…
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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…
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’s climate fight could be painful – especially on job and income growth
[Source: Los Angeles Times] Californians are likely to pay more for gasoline, electricity, food and new homes — and to feel their lives jolted in myriad other ways — because their state broadly expanded its war on climate change this summer. The ambitious new goals will require complex regulations on an unprecedented scale, but were approved in Sacramento Read More…
California environmental leaders, lawmakers gird for fight against President Trump
[Source: The Press Democrat] Restoring salmon in the Russian River and protecting the North Coast from oil rigs — two long-standing campaigns with broad public support — are among the goals likely to be challenged if not stifled by the sharp right turn of Donald Trump’s administration, environmental advocates and Democratic lawmakers said. More broadly, Read More…
Trump taps climate-change skeptic to oversee EPA transition
[Source: The Washington Post] President-elect Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the Environmental Protection Agency, saying the regulations it has put out under President Obama are “a disgrace.” He has vowed to roll back Obama’s signature effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, known as the Clean Power Plan, and to scrap a litany Read More…
Regulation buster Trump takes aim at the EPA
[Source: CNBS News] Among the Obama administration’s major accomplishments during eight years in office was a sweeping series of environmental regulations governing everything from clean air and water to greenhouse gas emissions and auto fuel efficiency. It looks like much of that work may be reversed in just a few days of the new Trump Read More…
Here’s why the Legislature’s moderate Democrats see the ‘Mod Squad’ growing on election day
[Source: The Los Angeles Times] Late last year, after a group of self-described moderate Democrats successfully watered down a landmark climate change bill pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown and fiercely opposed by the oil lobby, a flurry of headlines trumpeted the rise of the so-called Mod Squad in Sacramento. But 2016 has not been as kind to Read More…
Economic growth has not “decoupled” from CO2 emissions
[Source: Fox & Hounds] With the enactment of new climate change regulation through 2030, California leaders are closing ranks to make the economic and business case for more mandates. The new requirement will reduce total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 40 percent below 2020 emissions. On a per capita basis, that’s a reduction of one-half Read More…