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Kinda Intense: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: April 21, 2017
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Kinda Intense: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

By Leanna Sweha The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seems to stand in the shadow of Cap-and-Trade. Both a ...

By Leanna Sweha The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seems to stand in the shadow of Cap-and-Trade. Both are market-based programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and spur new technology, but the LC ...

April 21, 2017
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Bittersweet: The Cap-and-Trade Court Ruling and Environmental Justice

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: April 12, 2017
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Bittersweet: The Cap-and-Trade Court Ruling and Environmental Justice

By Leanna Sweha Last week, the Third District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that Cap-and-Tr ...

By Leanna Sweha Last week, the Third District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that Cap-and-Trade is not an unconstitutional tax. This was a decisive victory for the state. Members of the ...

April 12, 2017
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Cal AG Issues Letter to EPA Objecting to Withdrawal of Information Request to Oil and Natural Gas Industry

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 06, 2017
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Cal AG Issues Letter to EPA Objecting to Withdrawal of Information Request to Oil and Natural Gas Industry

(From Press Release) - Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with eight fellow attorneys general, sent a ...

(From Press Release) - Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with eight fellow attorneys general, sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt objecting to t ...

April 06, 2017
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California Responds to Trump Climate Change Policies

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 30, 2017
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California Responds to Trump Climate Change Policies

This week President Trump, flanked by the executives of polluting companies and miners, signed his long-p ...

This week President Trump, flanked by the executives of polluting companies and miners, signed his long-promised executive order intending to nullify President Obama’s previous climate change policies ...

March 30, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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California Gets in the Driver’s Seat on Fuel Economy Standards

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: March 27, 2017
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California Gets in the Driver’s Seat on Fuel Economy Standards

by Leanna Sweha The US EPA recently announced that it would reconsider national model year (MY) 2022-2025 ...

by Leanna Sweha The US EPA recently announced that it would reconsider national model year (MY) 2022-2025 fuel economy rules that cover both greenhouse gas and criteria pollutants. The same day, the m ...

March 27, 2017
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Preventing Leaks – That Is, the Cap-and-Trade Kind

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: February 28, 2017
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Preventing Leaks – That Is, the Cap-and-Trade Kind

By Leanna Sweha As engineers shore up storm-damaged dams and levees, there are other kinds of leaks to co ...

By Leanna Sweha As engineers shore up storm-damaged dams and levees, there are other kinds of leaks to consider - the kind caused by state climate change law, such as Cap-and-Trade. The Air Resources ...

February 28, 2017
| by Leanna Sweha

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Forget Trump – There’s an Internal Climate Change Battle Brewing

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: February 17, 2017
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Forget Trump – There’s an Internal Climate Change Battle Brewing

By Leanna Sweha Democrats in Sacramento are in lockstep against President Trump on climate change. At the ...

By Leanna Sweha Democrats in Sacramento are in lockstep against President Trump on climate change. At the same time, it looks like a rift is growing between some Democrats who prefer Cap-and-Trade and ...

February 17, 2017
| by Leanna Sweha

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Congressman John Garamendi: Congress Must Protect the EPA

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 09, 2017
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Congressman John Garamendi: Congress Must Protect the EPA

by John Garamendi Last Friday, my Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives introduced a dang ...

by John Garamendi Last Friday, my Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives introduced a dangerous bill (H.R. 861) that would abolish the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Sadly, this ...

February 09, 2017
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Aguiar-Curry Discusses Minimum Wage and Farm Worker Overtime in Second Part of Interview

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 05, 2017
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Aguiar-Curry Discusses Minimum Wage and Farm Worker Overtime in Second Part of Interview

Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an ...

Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an interview on a variety of topics. The former Mayor of Winters discussed a variety of issues o ...

January 05, 2017
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California Legislature Prepares to Fight Back, Hires Former AG Holder

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 05, 2017
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California Legislature Prepares to Fight Back, Hires Former AG Holder

In a sign of an epic showdown between California and a pending Trump Administration, Senate Leader Kevin ...

In a sign of an epic showdown between California and a pending Trump Administration, Senate Leader Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced on Wednesday that they are hiring former ...

January 05, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry Talks Land Use, Economic Development

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 04, 2017
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Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry Talks Land Use, Economic Development

Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an ...

Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an interview on a variety of topics. The former Mayor of Winters discussed a variety of issues o ...

January 04, 2017
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Will Stricter Climate Change Rules in 2017 Propel or Choke the California Economy?

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: January 02, 2017
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Will Stricter Climate Change Rules in 2017 Propel or Choke the California Economy?

by Leanna Sweha At a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Governor Brown called on climate s ...

by Leanna Sweha At a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Governor Brown called on climate scientists to tell the truth in the face of “climate deniers, big oil and big financial structur ...

January 02, 2017
| by Leanna Sweha

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Commentary: If You Build It, We Can Overcome

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 30, 2016
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Commentary: If You Build It, We Can Overcome

When the plastic industry put the plastic bag ban on the ballot, it seemed to me unlikely that they would ...

When the plastic industry put the plastic bag ban on the ballot, it seemed to me unlikely that they would succeed in overturning the statewide law. Why? Because by the time the election happened, ov ...

December 30, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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AG, Coastal Commission File Suit to Stop Fracking off California Coastline

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 20, 2016
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AG, Coastal Commission File Suit to Stop Fracking off California Coastline

(From Press Release) - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and the California Coastal Commission today file ...

(From Press Release) - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and the California Coastal Commission today filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior's final environmental assessment, w ...

December 20, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Will Lt. Governor Newsom Show Backbone to Open Up Beach to Public?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 08, 2016
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Will Lt. Governor Newsom Show Backbone to Open Up Beach to Public?

On the surface it seems like a local and parochial issue – billionaire venture capitalist and Sun Microsy ...

On the surface it seems like a local and parochial issue – billionaire venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla has been blocking access to the only road to Martins Beach, a cre ...

December 08, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Climate Change Policies in Doubt?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 28, 2016
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Climate Change Policies in Doubt?

Back in September, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climat ...

Back in September, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climate change policy. The legislation signed by the governor requires the state to cut emissions at ...

November 28, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Latest Climate Change Spending Plan is a Hard Sell for Some Democrats

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: September 20, 2016
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Latest Climate Change Spending Plan is a Hard Sell for Some Democrats

Effectiveness and Fairness of Programs Questioned By Leanna Sweha Governor Brown signed a bill last week ...

Effectiveness and Fairness of Programs Questioned By Leanna Sweha Governor Brown signed a bill last week to fund climate change programs with $900 million from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fun ...

September 20, 2016
| by Leanna Sweha

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My View: California Passes Climate Change Policy with Teeth

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 10, 2016
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My View: California Passes Climate Change Policy with Teeth

This week Governor Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climate change policy ...

This week Governor Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climate change policy. The legislation signed by the governor on Wednesday requires the state to cut emissions at l ...

September 10, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Residential Infill in Davis and the Death of Governor Brown’s Affordable Housing Trailer Bill

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: August 23, 2016
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Residential Infill in Davis and the Death of Governor Brown’s Affordable Housing Trailer Bill

By Leanna Sweha Last Friday’s article about campus housing generated a range of comments with competing v ...

By Leanna Sweha Last Friday’s article about campus housing generated a range of comments with competing views on where best to house students. Included was debate on the proposed Sterling 5th Street ...

August 23, 2016
| by Leanna Sweha

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Bill That Would Have Shone Light on “Anonymous” CEQA Plaintiffs Fails in Committee

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: April 20, 2016
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Bill That Would Have Shone Light on “Anonymous” CEQA Plaintiffs Fails in Committee

Would Bill Have Had Relevance to Nishi Lawsuit? By Leanna Sweha AB 2026 had its first and only hearing ye ...

Would Bill Have Had Relevance to Nishi Lawsuit? By Leanna Sweha AB 2026 had its first and only hearing yesterday in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee. The purpose of AB 2026 was to address the ...

April 20, 2016
| by Leanna Sweha

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