Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Climate Change

Al Gore Connects the Dots

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 22, 2008 | 1 Comment

“We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.” — A Generational Challenge to Repower America, Thursday, July 17, 2008.

Bill Seeking to Reduce VMT Moves Through State Senate

By Damien Newton | Jun 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, the Times wrote an excellent editorial promoting AB 842, “Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Sprawl." This legislation would require cities and counties to have a plan to reduce vehicle miles traveled by 10% before they could receive "Prop C" funds fro Department of Housing and Community Development which are now doled out based on a […]

Feuer’s Greenhouse Gas Tax Bill Passes Assembly

By Damien Newton | May 28, 2008 | 3 Comments

Yesterday the State Assembly passed Asm. Mike Feuer‘s A.B. 2558, the controversial piece of legislation that would allow voters to increase fees on drivers whose vehicles produce the greatest amount of pollution, despite unanimous opposition by the Republican caucus. The bill now moves to the Senate where it needs to be passed by committee and […]

Trucks Gone Green?

By Ben Fried | May 16, 2008 | No Comments

This image comes courtesy of TrucksDeliver.org, not the Onion. If BP can stand for "Beyond Petroleum," what’s to stop the trucking industry from claiming to "deliver a cleaner tomorrow"? Not much, apparently. In a story about the current practices of K Street lobbyists, the Washington Post reports that even the American Trucking Associations — a […]

Desert Dispatch Letter Defends SUV’s and Attacks Carbon Fees

By Damien Newton | Apr 24, 2008 | 9 Comments

When you write for a blog you get used to getting some amount of criticism for what you type. But a letter responding to the efforts of Fred Camino and I to bolster the Feuer bills after a bewildering editorial in the Desert Dispatch prevoked a response that was so shocking it made me spit […]

Paper: We Love Our Cars! Defeat the Climate Change Bills!

By Damien Newton | Apr 18, 2008 | 9 Comments

From the mouths of college students… Over the last couple of weeks, we read a lot of dumb newspaper opinion pieces about Mike Feuer’s legislation that would allow LA County to place a measure on the fall ballot to place a tax on vehicles that emit the most greenhouse gases. Of all the dumb reasons […]

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