Greenhouse Gas Emissions

From housing and health to transportation and education, the Legislative Analyst’s Office provides a litany of sobering climate change impacts for California legislators to address as they enact policies and set budgets.

In the latest episode of “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast,” CalMatters’ Manuela Tobias and the Los Angeles Times’ Liam Dillon explain why the state’s housing planning process has been ineffective and what the new penalties mean.

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This year, California has the opportunity to pair record climate investments with an ambitious roadmap to meet our climate goals.

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said California is no longer leading the global flght against climate change, a contrast from Newsom's stance.

In a few weeks, cities must keep food scraps and yard waste out of landfills to reduce polluting methane emissions. We can use the stuff we throw away to make renewable natural gas.

An important first step for California to transform its energy system will be to establish a procurement standard for fuels such as hydrogen and renewable natural gas.

Unfortunately, California’s approach to setting mandates to cut greenhouse gas emissions has left agriculture to become collateral damage.

Responding with half-measures will only feed worsening drought, heat waves and firestorms; state leaders must support SB 582.

The most important strategy to achieve net zero carbon emissions in California by mid-century is to ramp up use of electric vehicles.