Climate Change Archives | Page 3 of 5

Grid
List

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

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: March 27, 2017
| 0 comments

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
| by Leanna Sweha

| 0 comments

Read more
Preventing Leaks – That Is, the Cap-and-Trade Kind

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: February 28, 2017
| (1) Comment

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

| (1) Comment

Read more
Letters to Aguiar-Curry and Dodd on Moving to a Green Economy and Fracking

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 23, 2017
| 0 comments

Letters to Aguiar-Curry and Dodd on Moving to a Green Economy and Fracking

Dear Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry and Senator Dodd: The Davis community has been engaged in a series of ga ...

Dear Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry and Senator Dodd: The Davis community has been engaged in a series of gatherings to help residents process the realities of the new era and then activate themselves to ...

February 23, 2017
| by Vanguard Administrator

| 0 comments

Read more
A Triple Threat to Science

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: February 22, 2017
| 0 comments

A Triple Threat to Science

By Tia Will I believe the new administration in Washington embodies a rejection of science that is differ ...

By Tia Will I believe the new administration in Washington embodies a rejection of science that is different in both nature and magnitude than any we have seen in my lifetime. I believe that although ...

February 22, 2017
| by Tia Will

| 0 comments

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

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: February 17, 2017
| (25) Comments

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

| (25) Comments

Read more
DAPL Confrontation Likely Back On as New President Shifts Policies

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 25, 2017
| (37) Comments

DAPL Confrontation Likely Back On as New President Shifts Policies

Back in December, then-President Barack Obama handed a major victory for thousands of protesters and Indi ...

Back in December, then-President Barack Obama handed a major victory for thousands of protesters and Indigenous People, when the Department of the Army announced it would not approve an easement that ...

January 25, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (37) Comments

Read more
Will Stricter Climate Change Rules in 2017 Propel or Choke the California Economy?

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: January 02, 2017
| (11) Comments

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

| (11) Comments

Read more
Hexter Urges Climate Action by Trump and Congress

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 27, 2016
| (13) Comments

Hexter Urges Climate Action by Trump and Congress

(From Press Release) - Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter and the leaders of the other nine UC campuses h ...

(From Press Release) - Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter and the leaders of the other nine UC campuses have added their names to an open letter urging President-elect Donald Trump and members of Cong ...

December 27, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (13) Comments

Read more
What’s Happening in the Arctic, Is Not Staying in the Arctic

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 29, 2016
| (10) Comments

What’s Happening in the Arctic, Is Not Staying in the Arctic

Tipping Points to Collapse By Debra Chase “The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Paci ...

Tipping Points to Collapse By Debra Chase “The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was n ...

November 29, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (10) Comments

Read more
Monday Morning Thoughts: Climate Change Policies in Doubt?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 28, 2016
| (8) Comments

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

| (8) Comments

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

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: September 20, 2016
| (4) Comments

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

| (4) Comments

Read more
Monday Morning Thoughts: What Does Progressive Mean in Davis These Days?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 12, 2016
| (162) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: What Does Progressive Mean in Davis These Days?

For years Davis prided itself on being on the forefront of progressivism – a mixture of land preservation ...

For years Davis prided itself on being on the forefront of progressivism – a mixture of land preservation and environmentalism. But while Davis has pushed forward on the environmental side in recent ...

September 12, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (162) Comments

Read more
My View: California Passes Climate Change Policy with Teeth

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 10, 2016
| (41) Comments

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

| (41) Comments

Read more
The Shrinking Life of Krill

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 07, 2016
| (47) Comments

The Shrinking Life of Krill

By Debra Chase Krill is said to be the largest biomass on the planet, outweighing the human population of ...

By Debra Chase Krill is said to be the largest biomass on the planet, outweighing the human population of the world. Yet in size it is tiny, relative in size to a paper clip, measuring on average abou ...

September 07, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (47) Comments

Read more
Troubling Headlines Show Climate Change Is Moving Faster than Predicted

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 02, 2016
| (54) Comments

Troubling Headlines Show Climate Change Is Moving Faster than Predicted

By Debra Chase Some of the worst impacts of climate change that were thought to be events that could or w ...

By Debra Chase Some of the worst impacts of climate change that were thought to be events that could or would take place far into the future are here now, faster than expected, much faster than scienc ...

August 02, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (54) Comments

Read more
World Heritage Sites in Danger

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 01, 2016
| (10) Comments

World Heritage Sites in Danger

By Debra Chase “The supreme reality of our time is...the vulnerability of our planet.” When President Joh ...

By Debra Chase “The supreme reality of our time is...the vulnerability of our planet.” When President John F Kennedy spoke those on words June 28, 1963 he could not have known that 53 years later the ...

July 01, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (10) Comments

Read more
Assembly Resources Committee Approves Wolk Climate Change Bill With Bipartisan Vote

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 29, 2016
| 0 comments

Assembly Resources Committee Approves Wolk Climate Change Bill With Bipartisan Vote

Bill supports role of farms, parks, other open spaces in state’s climate change goals On a bipartisan, 7- ...

Bill supports role of farms, parks, other open spaces in state’s climate change goals On a bipartisan, 7-1 vote late Monday, the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources approved a measure by Senator L ...

June 29, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| 0 comments

Read more
The Heat is On: Historic Climate Agreement Signing on World Earth Day

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 21, 2016
| (12) Comments

The Heat is On: Historic Climate Agreement Signing on World Earth Day

By Debra Chase Inextricably connected - every little inch of earth and sky– every life form - large or sm ...

By Debra Chase Inextricably connected - every little inch of earth and sky– every life form - large or small – neglect one part and it all breaks down. This was the overlying message at the December 2 ...

April 21, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (12) Comments

Read more
Senator Wolk Introduces Climate Change Measures

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 20, 2016
| 0 comments

Senator Wolk Introduces Climate Change Measures

Bills support investment in key strategy in Governor’s climate change plan (From press release) Senator L ...

Bills support investment in key strategy in Governor’s climate change plan (From press release) Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) introduced two measures today to solidify the important role that protection ...

February 20, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| 0 comments

Read more
Historic Global Climate Change Agreement Adopted in France

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 13, 2015
| (137) Comments

Historic Global Climate Change Agreement Adopted in France

by Debra Chase For over twenty years the myth of Sisyphus has been the ruling analogy of the global clima ...

by Debra Chase For over twenty years the myth of Sisyphus has been the ruling analogy of the global climate talks. The ball of past climate conferences has been consistently rolled uphill by diplomats ...

December 13, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (137) Comments

Read more

1 234 5

Newsletter Sign-Up

Monthly Subscriber Sign-Up