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Today the California Air Resources Board voted to spend cap-and-trade revenues on high speed rail, among other uses: The state Air Resources Board voted today to support the proposal from the state Finance Department to invest the first three years of revenue from the allowance auctions on carbon- reducing projects including high-speed rail, zero-emissions vehicles, [...]
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 [...]
Governor Jerry Brown is taking the fight against climate change – and those who obstruct action on climate change – to a whole new level. This week the governor announced a new website designed to rebut the people who continue to deny that global warming is real. The site, Climate Change: Just the Facts, is [...]
When Senator Fran Pavley, author of California’s landmark global warming reduction law (AB 32), voted no on funding the high speed rail project earlier this month it came as a surprise to most observers. At the time, many assumed that Pavley voted no because she was locked in a tight race to keep her Senate [...]
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