Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Climate Change

Feuer’s Sales Tax and Climate Change Bills Pass Committee

By Damien Newton | Apr 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

The California Assembly Transportation Committee passed Assemblyman Mike Feuer’s legislation that would allow LA County to place measures on the ballot to fund transportation projects. A.B. 2321 allows for the county to levy an additional half cent sales tax that would go directly to transportation projects after approval by two-thirds of voters. The controversial A.B. […]

Desert Dispatch and OC Register Add to Anti-Feuer Editorials

By Damien Newton | Apr 8, 2008 | 6 Comments

As we get closer to next week’s hearing on Mike Feuer’s transportation funding legislation, you can expect to see more and more piling on as newspapers trip over themselves to see who can write the worst editorial. So far, the Press Enterprise’s "Daily Dude" still has that distinction. So far, LA Streetsblog has dissected three […]

Daily Breeze Joins the Anti-Feuer Editorial Movement

By Damien Newton | Apr 7, 2008 | 10 Comments

This Has Nothing to Do with Global Warming Slightly closer to home than San Bernadino, the Daily Breeze also seems offended that Assemblyman Mike Feuer would make a link between global warming, air pollution and congestion and that he would actually try to do something about it. Here’s a novel way to combat global warming: Get […]

Papers Ganging Up on Feuer Legislation

By Damien Newton | Apr 7, 2008 | No Comments

Last week we saw the Investor’s Business Daily advise people that global warming doesn’t exist and any tax on gas is a bad idea. IBD isn’t the only voice criticising Feuer’s legislation, the Press-Enterprise’s "Daily Dude" is enraged at the mere thought of increasing the gas tax to help fight global warming but leaves out any substantial discussion to leave […]

Boxer Seeks to Bypass Courts on Emissions

By Damien Newton | Feb 29, 2008 | 2 Comments

Not content to let the courts handle it, California’s Junior Senator Barbara Boxer has introduced legislation, S. 2555, that would over rule the EPA and allow states to set their own emissions standards for automobiles. The Senator announced the legislation in an email to supportes that urges them to go to Boxer’s website to email […]

Congressional Resource Service: California Better Than Most on GHG Density

By Damien Newton | Dec 13, 2007 | No Comments

A new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the non-partisan research branch of the legislative branch of government, ranks each state in terms of their Greenhouse Gas emissions per capita (called GHG Intensity Levels) and releases a dire warning about how far we have to go to even come close to meet the goals […]

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