Recent Streetsblog LA posts about cap and trade

Garcetti Motion Encourages Affordable Housing At Metro Stations

By Joe Linton | Nov 13, 2014 | No Comments

Earlier today, the Metro board of directors passed a motion [PDF] encouraging Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and affordable housing. The motion may give some indication of where the board’s newest chair, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, hopes to take the agency. Garcetti has been a vocal proponent of siting affordable housing along transit lines. Garcetti authored the motion […]

More Housing, Less Sprawl: Tackling Los Angeles’ Affordable Housing Crisis through Smart Growth

By Jason Islas | Oct 31, 2014 | 12 Comments

It is no secret that Southern California is currently facing one of the worst housing crises it has faced in more than half a century. That’s the point Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti drove home Wednesday at the Los Angeles Business Council’s annual Mayoral Housing, Transportation, and Jobs summit. While it isn’t a revelation to […]

The Hidden Gas Tax That Doesn’t Exist

By Melanie Curry | Oct 27, 2014 | 25 Comments

You may have seen the ads on Facebook, or on one of the roving billboards being pulled by a gasoline-powered truck. They warned darkly of a coming “hidden tax” on fuel that was so hidden nobody in the media was talking about it. You may have wondered what it meant, even as the ads urged […]

More Workshops on CA Affordable Housing Program

By Melanie Curry | Oct 23, 2014 | No Comments

California’s Strategic Growth Council is holding a second round of workshops on its guidelines for spending cap-and-trade funds on affordable housing and sustainable communities. The draft guidelines [PDF] incorporate input gathered over the summer as well as at several packed workshops held throughout the state in August of this year. The Affordable Housing and Sustainable […]

CA Tackles the Question: What Is a “Disadvantaged Community”?

By Melanie Curry | Sep 4, 2014 | 1 Comment

In a packed, airless room last night in Oakland, several hundred people grappled with the question of how to define those communities in California that shoulder a heavier burden of pollution than others. The workshop was the third in a series of three—the other two were held recently in Fresno and Los Angeles–led by the California […]

Steinberg Kills Bill That Sought to Delay Cap-and-Trade on Fuels

By Melanie Curry | Aug 27, 2014 | 4 Comments

The misinformation campaigns trumpeting an imminent “hidden gas tax” in California lost a battle with the defeat of Assemblymember Henry Perea’s bill, A.B. 69, which was designed to delay application of cap-and-trade to the fuels industry for three years. Fuel companies have already begun participating in the state’s cap-and-trade auctions, buying pollution credits that they […]

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