Climate Change Policy

AB 32: Sustaining California’s Climate Change Leadership Role in North America: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from VERDEXCHANGE on Vimeo.

Comments from an interview of President Bill Clinton on September 11, 2002, about the potential of cleantech to create a safer country and a more economically and environmentally sustainable country, supplemented by remarks and coverage of President Obama on Earth Day 2009.

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Rep. EarCongressman Blum opines on historic events such as CARB’s adoption of the AB 32 Scoping Plan, a new president, and a new Congress.

Paul Krekorian VXN: Karen Bass, the Speaker of the Assembly, recently named you as assistant majority leader and appointed you as the first chair to the newly created Select Committee on Renewable Energy. Elaborate on what such responsibilities include.

A taped message to the 2008 Governor’s Global Climate Summit from then newly-elected President Barack Obama, whose words announced a drastic sea change in the federal approach to climate change.

Margo Reid Brown, chair of the California Integrated Waste Management Board, discusses the role of waste management in meeting California's ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Patty Senecal explains important disparities in the Clean Trucks plans between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and how these disparities may delay the benefits of the ports’ Clean Air Action Plan.

The RAND Corporation's recently released research brief, entitled “Identifying and Reducing Climate-Change Vulnerabilities in Water-Management Plans,” describes how California utilities can anticipate the effects of climate change to manage regional water supplies. 

State Treasurer Bill Lockyer details how California is using its vast financial resources to secure a greener and more sustainable economy.