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On the eve of the 51st anniversary of the first Earth Day, the north country was blanketed by fresh icy flakes. Just beginning to awaken, spring blooms have been pushed into sleep again, with growers battening the hatches to protect the season’s young crops. Weather rocks would tell you the pandemic year — now rolling into a 14th month — saw rain, sun, snow, wind and fire. A dry summer and frigid winter punctuated 2020, an American chapter that brimmed with environmental degradation, conservation success, policy plays and deeply emotional connections to the blue planet. Inaugur...

Learning From California’s Ambitious Climate Policy By Aimee Barnes, Ashley Conrad-Saydah, Hannah Argento-McCurdy, Angela Luh, and Matthew Gobin April 16, 2021, 5:00 am Getty/Manny Crisostomo The Carquinez Bridge looms in the background of the playground area of the Ninth Street Park and Boat Launch in Benicia, California, on February 11, 2014. Sam Hananel Ari Drennen Subscribe California has long been synonymous with effective climate policy. Beginning in 2001, the Golden State established its first voluntary emissions reporting program under Gov. Gray Davis (D). Subsequently, Gov. Arn...

CARB responds to State Auditor’s report; “doubling down”, new Scoping Plan in 2022 Earlier this week, the State Auditor of California released a report on an audit of the California Air Resources Board’s (ARB’s) transportation programs intended to reduce greenhouse gases. (Earlier post.) The report suggested that California might not meet its GHG reduction goals for 2030, determined that CARB must do more to help the State work strategically toward its climate change goals, and recommended a number of courses of action that would, in the view of the Office of the Auditor, increase t...

Latest Western Climate Initiative auction sells out; still space for more climate ambition from cap and trade Yosemite National Park The latest California-Quebec auction was fully subscribed, based on results released today. This is the second quarter in a row where all allowances sold, which is good news for the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. There is still opportunity, however, for more ambition in the program moving forward. Today’s results, by the numbers All 54,773,607 current vintage allowances were offered for sale. This is the second consecutive auction where all current a...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 30, 2020, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (“DEC”) released guidance for New York State agencies to estimate the value of reducing one ton of greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. DEC issued this guidance pursuant to the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019 (“CLCPA”), which directed DEC, in consultation with the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority ("NYSERDA"), to establish a social cost of carbon in terms of $/...