Recent Streetsblog LA posts about cap and trade

CA Asm. Richard Bloom Talks Budgets, Cap-and-Trade, Streetcars, and More

By Melanie Curry | Jun 30, 2014 | 5 Comments

Last week, Streetsblog sat down with California Assemblymember Richard Bloom, who represents Santa Monica and other West Los Angeles communities. We asked him to talk about the state budget, the cap-and-trade expenditure plan, and funding for transit and housing. Bloom chairs the Subcommittee for Transportation for the California Assembly Budget Committee. Bloom talked about the […]

Breaking News: Deal Reached on CA’s Cap-and-Trade Spending Plan

By Melanie Curry | Jun 12, 2014 | 6 Comments

Earlier this evening, the bicameral Budget Conference Committee approved a compromise between state legislators and Governor Brown on how to spend $850 million in revenues from the state’s cap-and-trade system for the next fiscal year. The new plan largely stuck to the Governor’s original proposal for the first year of the expenditure plan, but it […]

Steinberg’s Cap-and-Trade Spending Plan Gains Momentum, No News on Deal

By Melanie Curry and Damien Newton | Jun 10, 2014 | 2 Comments

Despite being only 0.5 percent of the California budget, cap-and-trade revenue spending is emerging as a sticking point in Sacramento as Democrats in the Assembly, Senate, and Governor’s Office push three different spending plans. The legislature must approve a state budget by June 15. Each of the three proposed plans for spending cap-and-trade revenue to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) […]

Infographic: Comparing California’s Three Cap-and-Trade Spending Proposals

By Melanie Curry | Jun 6, 2014 | 2 Comments

In the midst of California’s state budget negotiations, the legislature must separately decide how to spend the state’s cap-and-trade revenue, be it on public transit, high-speed rail, affordable housing near transit, or other emissions-reducing programs. Three different proposals for slicing this new pie come from Governor Jerry Brown, the Senate, and the Assembly. In the next […]

CalBike Pushes for Protected Bike Lanes, Vulnerable User Laws in Sac

By Melanie Curry | May 23, 2014 | 1 Comment

The California Bicycle Coalition held its Advocacy Day this week in the state capitol to lobby legislators on several key policy reforms to promote bicycling. Joined by local bicycle groups from around the state and participants who finished the California Climate Ride in Sacramento, CalBike met with state legislators and staffers and urged them to support two […]

Steinberg: CA Cap-and-Trade Must Fund Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing

By Melanie Curry | May 19, 2014 | 54 Comments

Negotiations over the California state budget are producing dueling proposals on how best to spend revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade program. While Governor Jerry Brown continues to call for a third of the cap-and-trade funds to go to CA high-speed rail, Senate President ProTem Darrell Steinberg last week expanded upon his alternative proposal to spend a […]

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