While the rest of the nation does little to combat climate change, California is showing the country -- indeed the world -- how to craft sophisticated climate policy that will cut greenhouse gas emissions.
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 12.20.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — California formally adopted the nation's most comprehensive so-called "cap-and-trade" system Thursday, an experiment by the worl...
Mike Sandler | Posted 08.21.2011
California's reconsideration of carbon pricing provides a chance to create an alternative that can serve as a model for the world.
blogs.sacbee.com | 3:04 PM | Posted 05.29.2011
California would vastly increase its commitment to wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable energy under legislation that cleared the Legislature o...
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — A judge has temporarily halted the nation's most ambitious program to give power plants, utilities and other polluters financial inc...
Robert Stavins | Posted 05.25.2011
All in all, cap-and-trade serves the goal of environmental justice better than the alternatives. This progressive policy instrument merits a central place in the arsenal of weapons California employs.
Peter Glatzer | Posted 05.25.2011
The passing of Prop 23 would turn the clock backwards on the support of clean technology companies in the state, on green jobs, on emissions standards, and it would send a message to the rest of the country that if California can't do it, nobody can.
Steve Westly | Posted 05.25.2011
This piece was coauthored by George Wagner. As Californians, we have two clear paths before us - one as a leader in clean technology and the other as...
Tina Gerhardt | Posted 05.25.2011
A number of regional agreements in the united States and Canada limit greenhouse gas emissions. What's stopping them from becoming national legislation? Corporate interests.
Hunt Ramsbottom | Posted 05.25.2011
A "Yes" vote on Prop 23 jeopardizes both economic growth and the improvement of air quality in California, and delays the reduction in the emission of detrimental greenhouse gases.
Matthew Dakotah | Posted 05.25.2011
Steyer is an unassuming, fist-pounding man of conviction who deftly defies the stereotype of ruthless financier. I sat down with him to debate the issues and hear his closing argument.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The campaign against Proposition 23 – the ballot initiative that would push back California's landmark global warming...
Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011
Adrian Grenier (of Entourage) and film producer Peter Glatzer first started collaborating on environmental issues in 2008 when they created the show A...
Brendan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
What will be the impact of climate change on California workers if the US and other countries around the world fail to significantly reduce green house gas emissions?
Preeti Vissa | Posted 05.25.2011
By strangling efforts to move away from oil and other dirty energy, California's Proposition 23 guarantees that our children will continue to breathe polluted air for decades.
Brendan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
Proposition 23 is the real job-killer. Why? Because there are no jobs on a dead planet.
Rachel Morello-Frosch | Posted 05.25.2011
BP has made a big mess. It may sound like we're talking about the Gulf oil spill, but we're actually talking about our own backyard: BP's Carson Refinery located in densely populated southern Los Angeles.
William S. Becker | Posted 05.25.2011
A new poll in California indicates a dead heat among that state's voters on Proposition 23, the ballot initiative in which out-of-state oil companies ...
Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011
As the old cars are scrapped and the age of our national fleet is modernized, the improvement in the air we breathe continues. Sometimes "legislating technology" can actually work.
nytimes.com | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 05.25.2011
A ballot initiative to suspend a milestone California law curbing greenhouse gas emissions is drawing a wave of contributions from out-of-state oil co...
Jan McGirk | Posted 05.25.2011
California is bracing for a battle over Proposition 23. Bankrolled mostly by two Texas oil companies, Valero and Tesoro, this controversial measure o...
Alison van Diggelen | Posted 05.25.2011
AB 32 is the Golden State's attempt to introduce a version of a cap-and-trade carbon tax, which would hit polluters, power plants, refineries and cement manufacturers hard. There's now a growing movement against it.
Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 05.25.2011
So far this year, globally, the weather patterns, insects, wild fires, melting glaciers, sea ice and the oceans all appear to be on performance-enhancing drugs eclipsing, in some cases, thousand year events.
Araceli Ruano | Posted 05.25.2011
Meg Whitman's economic plan for California will dig our state into an an even deeper hole, not help us get out. It's long on political rhetoric and short on sound economics.
Tina Gerhardt | Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate shelved climate legislation, making it unlikely that it will be passed this year. The subject has been the source of considerable concern and conversation here at the UNFCCC climate talks.
Ann Carlson | Posted 12.20.2011