Greenhouse Gas Emissions

气候变化

Checking the math on cap and trade, some experts say it’s not adding up

Planet-warming emissions could soar 30 percent too high in a little more than a decade, state analysts say.

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 5 月 22, 2018

政治

Auto mileage and emissions: Will Washington and California be negotiating?

News reports say federal officials are to negotiate auto emission and fuel-efficiency standards with California. But the state's air regulators haven't heard from Washington yet.

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 5 月 15, 2018

环境

California fights wildfires aggressively—but prevention takes a back seat

The state firefighting agency, Cal Fire, spends the bulk of its budget battling wildfires. A new report says it should do more to prevent them.

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 3 月 28, 2018

环境

In California’s Sierra Nevada, putting the trees to work

"What happens in the Sierra Nevada doesn't stay in the Sierra Nevada."

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 1 月 23, 2018

环境

California’s climate fight gets harder soon, and the big culprit is cars

Normally upbeat officials are guarded about the prospects for success.

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 1 月 10, 2018

经济

Tesla troubles: Can California impose its blue values on the green economy?

Would California withhold clean car rebates from Tesla customers if the electric car maker doesn't meet the state's evolving labor standards?

经过 Judy Lin • 12 月 20, 2017

气候变化

In California’s wildfires, a looming threat to climate goals

Mother Nature doesn't follow California's emissions rules.

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 12 月 14, 2017

气候变化

California’s emissions dip—but climate policies get less credit than the weather

Last year’s drop in California emissions came not through drastic pollution reductions from oil refineries nor the state’s lauded cap-and-trade program. It was the rain.

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 11 月 29, 2017

气候变化

Once again, California sues feds over failure to enforce Clean Air Act

In what is becoming a familiar pattern, the state of California has notified the Trump Administration of its intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce an Obama-era law calling for reduction in methane gas emissions. Methane’s potent heat-trapping capacity makes it many times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 6 月 29, 2017