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Governor Jerry Brown issued the May Revise for the state budget yesterday, and one provision has some transit advocates unhappy. The governor’s budget proposed to loan cap-and-trade funds to the general fund, which are promised to be repaid but it’s not entirely clear how that would work: Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled his budget for [...]
Last week the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) approved a motion asking the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to spend the revenues generated by the AB 32 cap-and-trade for sustainable transportation. As reported by Streetsblog LA: Governor Jerry Brown’s administration states that transportation must be one of the main areas in which cap [...]
Californians For High Speed Rail has written to Mary Nichols, head of the California Air Resources Board, to urge her to support using cap-and-trade funds to help fund high speed rail: We encourage you to strongly consider applying a significant portion of Cap and Trade revenues to California’s high‐speed rail project as part of the [...]
One of the top issues facing the state legislature in 2013 will be reforming the California Environmental Quality Act. It’s an idea whose time has come. CEQA is popular with environmentalists, but overall it has failed to achieve its goals of producing better development and protecting the state’s environment. Since CEQA’s passage in 1970, sprawl [...]
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