[Source: Reuters] President Donald Trump will announce the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will revive a review of the feasibility of strict fuel efficiency standards through 2025, but will not seek to withdraw California’s authority to set its own vehicle rules, a White House official said late on Tuesday. Reuters reported on Monday the administration planned Read More…
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California to fight if EPA eases emissions rule
[Source: San Francisco Chronicle] The Trump administration is expected to start rolling back tough limits on carbon pollution from cars and trucks this week, and may be considering a plan to revoke California’s authority to set its own pollution standards for vehicles, a linchpin of the state’s effort to battle climate change. Environmental Protection Agency Read More…
State lawmakers consider new bill to increase gas tax for road repairs
[Source: ABC10 / KXTV] Take a deep breath — California lawmakers are still considering raising the tax on gas in order to fund repairs to roads and highways. California drivers in 2016 paid the fifth highest excise tax on gasoline in the country, according to the Tax Foundation. The Golden state was behind Hawaii (#4), Read More…
Trump’s regulation rollbacks have already set off an economic revolution
[Source: New York Post] If you want to start a business, the World Bank says you’d be better off in Canada than setting up shop here in the United States, where mind-numbing government regulations smother entrepreneurs. That was true, anyway, before Donald Trump became president. In his address to Congress last week, Trump announced that Read More…
Surprisingly, talk in Sacramento could return to a firm cap on state spending
[Source: Los Angeles Times] During California’s biggest state budget fights, many of which played out in the shadow of monster deficits, lawmakers clashed mightily over this question: Were the state’s problems a result of too little cash or too much spending? Those who believed it was a cash problem seem to have prevailed. But don’t Read More…
California won’t meet its climate change goals without a lot more housing density in its cities
[Source: Los Angeles Times] To meet the bold new climate change goals put in place last year, California will work to put millions of electric cars on the road, revolutionize its dairy industry and generate half of all power from solar panels and other renewable sources. But those efforts will come up short, warn state Read More…
California exports its poor to Texas, other states, while wealthier people move in
[Source: The Sacramento Bee] California exports more than commodities such as movies, new technologies and produce. It also exports truck drivers, cooks and cashiers. Every year from 2000 through 2015, more people left California than moved in from other states. This migration was not spread evenly across all income groups, a Sacramento Bee review of Read More…
Environmental programs face deep cuts under budget proposal
[Source: Associated Press] The Trump administration would slash programs aimed at slowing climate change and improving water safety and air quality, while eliminating thousands of jobs, according to a draft of the Environmental Protection Agency budget proposal obtained by The Associated Press. Under the tentative plan from the Office of Management and Budget, the agency’s Read More…
Economist says job creation ‘miserable’ as Orange County market slows
[Source: The Orange County Register] Orange County’s job growth has slowed dramatically as the county has neared what economists consider full employment and the cost of housing continues to rise. Payrolls grew by 1.1 percent to 1,572,300 from January 2016 to January this year, state employment officials said Friday. Last March the year-over-year job growth Read More…