Full Coverage: The political debate over climate change in California
A decade ago, California set an important benchmark on climate change with legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Now lawmakers have passed a new measure to extend that target, and Gov. Jerry Brown signed it into law. Click here for the latest details on the legislation, follow what’s happening in Sacramento on our Essential Politics news feed and read below for in-depth coverage of the issue.
This collection also includes articles about the California delegation’s role during the United Nations conference in Paris and how another battle over climate policy played out last year.
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California will become a petri dish for international efforts to slow global warming under legislation signed by Gov.
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A controversial measure to extend California’s target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions was approved by the Assembly on Tuesday, clearing a major hurdle in a battle at the Capitol over the future of the state’s environmental programs.
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In this year’s debate over California climate policy, much of the attention has centered on a proposal to extend and expand the state’s mandate for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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In early 2015, Democratic members of the state Assembly huddled in a Cal State Sacramento conference room to hear Mary Nichols, chair of the powerful Air Resources Board, explain how her agency handles the billions of dollars collected from California’s marquee program to fight climate change.
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Mark Bauhaus used to make a point of avoiding Sacramento.
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The battle to extend California’s climate policies could grind to a halt this year, but Gov.
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California’s electric-car rebate program, which has helped put thousands of Teslas, Nissan Leafs and Chevrolet Volts on the road, is running out of money.
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The linchpin of California’s climate change agenda, a program known as cap and trade, has become mired in legal, financial and political troubles that threaten to derail the state’s plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown had a song stuck in his head, and he wanted to hear it.
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Sitting under a soaring ornamental ceiling in a museum near the Seine, Gov.
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China’s top negotiator at the United Nations summit on climate change practically gushed as he described his country’s relationship with California.
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Even as California sells itself as an environmental success story during the United Nations summit here, the state is in danger of failing to meet its own targets for getting clean vehicles on the road.
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More than a year and a half ago, Franz Untersteller, the environment secretary for the German state of Baden-Württemberg, stepped into a meeting with Gov.
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It was like the debut of an environmentally themed buddy cop drama, with a political odd couple uniting against a common foe.
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In the wonky world of climate change, California’s presence at the United Nations summit in Paris next month is expected to be a star-studded affair.
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During a pitched battle over climate change legislation this year, the petroleum industry dramatically ramped up its spending on lobbying, new disclosures show.
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At a laboratory in downtown Los Angeles, a big rig spins its wheels on massive rollers as a metal tube funnels its exhaust into an array of air quality sensors.
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California launched an ambitious effort Wednesday to expand renewable energy and increase energy efficiency, advancing Gov.
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California’s battle against climate change involves an alphabet soup of agencies responsible for different programs and several key laws that guide state actions.
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The “wanted” poster with pictures of five state lawmakers appeared in the pages of a Spanish-language newspaper in Southern California last week.
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When Californians check their mailboxes or flip on their radios these days, they might be forgiven for thinking an election is around the corner.
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Henry T. Perea was having a change of heart.
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President Obama’s plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants over the next 15 years will force states to address climate change by pushing them to act more like California.
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Californians are concerned about the effects of climate change and support new steps to address the problem, according to a poll released Wednesday night by the Public Policy Institute of California.
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Buried in Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change was a reference that Gov.
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For Gov. Jerry Brown, fighting climate change is more than a central tenet of his political agenda.
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On a quiet Sunday morning last April, power plants were pumping far more energy into California’s electricity grid than residents needed for their refrigerators, microwaves and television sets.
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SACRAMENTO — Marking a historic occasion with a simple, subdued ceremony, Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. called Monday for ambitious new environmental rules as he embarked on an unprecedented fourth term as California’s governor.
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A meeting with Gov.
