Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Climate Change

New Report Outlines How CA Can Kick Its Addiction to Oil, Foreign and Domestic

By Damien Newton | Jun 20, 2013 | 6 Comments

The government is encouraging you to drive a car, and if California is truly serious about reducing its oil dependency that needs to change. This is the unequivocal conclusion of Unraveling Ties to Petroleum a new report commissioned by Next 10 California and written by UCLA researchers Juan Matute, Director of the UCLA Local Climate Initiative, and Stephanie […]

Brown’s Budget Sends Cap and Trade Funds to Black Hole of General Fund

By Damien Newton | May 15, 2013 | No Comments

When California passed it’s land-mark Greenhouse Gas reduction laws in 2006, residents and businesses were assured that funds raised through the controversial “cap and trade” program would be invested in programs and projects that would further reduce emissions. That promise is turning out to be a lot of hot air. Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled […]

The Keys to Beating, or at Least Fighting, Climate Change: Bikes, Transit, Parks, Trees

By Damien Newton | Jun 21, 2012 | 2 Comments

Much is being made, and rightly so, of “Mid-Century Warming in the Los Angeles Region,” the report released today by UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. The report breaks down the impact of Climate Change on Los Angeles down to the 2 square mile level using new technology over the coming decades. The bad news […]

Amidst Budget Impasse, GOP Tries and Fails to Gut Clean Air Act

By Kathryn Reid Moore | Apr 8, 2011 | No Comments

With budget talks reaching a critical pass to avert a government shutdown, House Republicans have been busy passing an ideological wishlist, including an attempt to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from “raising taxes.” H.R. 910, which they are calling the “Energy Tax Prevention Act” would undermine the EPA’s ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from […]

Get Rich While Reducing Emissions: Smart Growth Keeps Looking Smarter

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 24, 2011 | No Comments

Just when you may have been looking for ways to counter that Pew report which poo-pooed the environmental impacts of transit and smart growth, here’s more evidence that reducing driving has an essential role to play in meeting economic and environmental goals: A new report from the Center for Clean Air Policy concludes that compact […]

California’s Climate Laws Undermined by Weak Transpo Policies, Investment

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 15, 2010 | No Comments

A new report from NRDC and Smart Growth America — which examines what all 50 states are doing to curb greenhouse gas emissions from transportation — lauds California as the most progressive state on policy, but points out that its transportation and spending priorities don’t match the bold blueprints, particularly as it relates to public […]

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