The State Air Resources Board (ARB) is required to set emissions reduction targets this year for the initial planning cycle set in motion by Senate Bill 375. These targets reflect regional goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles and light duty trucks. The bill requires that ARB release draft targets by June 30 … Continue reading
Earlier this month, it was revealed that a ballot measure proposed by the so-called “California Jobs Initiative” had obtained more than enough signatures to allow it to be added to the November 2010 ballot. This ballot measure, if approved by California voters, would require that Assembly Bill 32, the state’s global warming law, be suspended … Continue reading
The “Big Four” among California’s metropolitan planning organizations — SCAG (Los Angeles/Southern California), MTC/ABAG (San Francisco Bay Area), SANDAG (San Diego), and SACOG (Sacramento) — govern regions that feature urban population densities and relatively mature transit networks. Abundant opportunities exist in the urban cores of all four regions to ratchet up the intensity of land … Continue reading
Cal/EPA and ARB in Sacramento. Courtesy of Capitol Weekly. In Senate Bill 375, the Legislature required the State Air Resources Board (ARB) to establish regional targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in California attributable to vehicles and light duty trucks. ARB will release draft GHG targets by June 30, 2010, and will continue to cooperate … Continue reading
Sprawl in Rocklin, CA, outside of Sacramento. Courtesy of Flickr user neighborhoods.org. I’ve written before about Senate Bill 375, California’s recently enacted anti-sprawl land use planning law, on this blog, but the bill passed back in 2008. Since it’s been awhile, a refresher seemed in order. Towards that end, I’ve written a new blog page, … Continue reading