cap and trade

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week that he would ask state Attorney General Xavier Becerra — the same guy who is always suing the Trump administration — to investigate whether oil and gas companies are to blame for high fuel prices in the state.

Call the Federal Elections Commission: CNN made an enormous in-kind contribution to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Wednesday evening.

Bill Currier explained how Oregon’s Democrats are attaching an emergency clause to the H.B. 2020 “cap and trade” bill to deny referendums.

Oregon’s Democrat Governor Kate Brown authorized state police to find the state’s missing Republican lawmakers after they failed to show up for a vote on a climate bill.

California Governor Jerry Brown will open the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday in an effort to show leadership on the issue of climate change — and to dissent from the position of President Donald Trump, who pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accords last year.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s international cap-and-trade pact to tackle climate change is on the verge of imploding following the election earlier this month of a new government in Ontario, Canada, that ran on the promise of dumping the very expensive climate change deal.

Arnold Schwarzenegger joined the “New Way California” initiative this week, in the hope of creating a competitive California Republican Party by triangulating toward Democrat priorities.

California High-Speed Rail agreed to increase payments to its construction manager by 18 percent after failing to complete its first 32-mile section within the seven-year deadline.

Brian Dahle, the newly installed California State Assembly Republican Leader, did not take long to get on the wrong side of GOP grassroots activists in California after appointing several of the most notorious “Swamp 8” Republicans to leadership roles — including former leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) and Rocky Chavez (R-Oceanside).

California Democrats fast-tracked another bill Thursday designed to rig the recall election process and protect their supermajority status by saving an embattled state senator from a recall effort.

Assemblyman Brian Dahle (R-Nubieber), a farmer who hails from a tiny town in the northeastern corner of California, has been elected Republican Assembly Minority leader to replace the embattled Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley), who had supported Jerry Brown’s cap-and-trade extension.

In a showdown at the Riverside County Central Committee Thursday night, over 300 Republican activists showed up from across the southland, as Minority Leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) lost the support of the Riverside County GOP in a unanimous vote of no confidence.

The San Bernardino County Central Committee voted Thursday to call on Assemblyman Chad Mayes to resign as leader of the Assembly Republican Caucus.

Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Temecula) confirmed to Breitbart News Wednesday evening that she has been notified by legislative staff that she has been removed from her position as Vice Chair of the Assembly Insurance Committee.

California voters could enshrine climate change in the state’s Constitution — thanks to a phony ballot initiative being promoted by weak Republican Party leaders as a brake on cap-and-trade spending.

A flurry of protests against Republican state legislators in San Bernardino County who voted for Gov. Jerry Brown’s cap-and-trade extension has made an impact.

California Democrats are triggering nationwide criticism, and even ridicule, for passing aggressive laws and regulations on climate change. But a new poll reveals they are giving most Californians exactly what they want.

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joined Governor Jerry Brown in San Francisco at the signing of an extension to the state’s cap-and-trade law on Tuesday, warning Republicans to “stop lying to the people” on climate change.

A lawsuit against California’s controversial “fire prevention fee” (a.k.a. “fire tax”) will continue, despite being suspended earlier this month.

Californians may be able to vote on high-speed rail again, after Governor Jerry Brown’s cap-and-trade extension carried a Republican-backed provision requiring a referendum on how the cap-and-trade funds are to be spent.

Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore), who had served as the deputy to Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley), resigned her leadership post on Thursday in protest against Mayes’ vote for Governor Jerry Brown’s “cap-and-trade” extension bill.

Two of the nation’s busiest ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach, released a $14 Billion “zero-emissions’ plan Wednesday that could include a regional cap-and-trade system.

California State Assembly Republican caucus leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) is facing calls for his resignation after he supported an extension of cap-and-trade, and after allegations of an extramarital affair with his predecessor emerged.

Gas prices in California are likely to increase with the passage Monday of the extension Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature cap-and-trade program. The only question is by how much.

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger praised Republican State Assembly Leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) on Tuesday, after Mayes led a handful of Republicans to cross party lines and vote to extend the state’s controversial cap-and-trade program.

The “shadow presidency” of California Governor Jerry Brown scored a win Monday night as eight Republican legislators crossed the political aisle and voted with most Democrats to extend a key component of the “cap- and-trade” program that has literally shifted $4.42 billion from the private sector to the government since mid-2012.

California Governor Jerry Brown told a committee hearing last Thursday that extending his legacy cap-and-trade program was necessary to respond to “a threat to organized human existence” — namely, climate change.

Jerry Brown is quietly repealing the controversial tax in order to attract GOP votes for extending the state’s “cap-and-Trade” program.

California Governor Jerry Brown announced Tuesday evening that he had reached a deal with both chambers of the state legislature to extend the Golden State’s “cap-and-trade” program beyond its original expiration date in 2020.

The California taxman wants add to taxes on space travel on top of taxing land, buildings, businesses, income, transportation and the air we breathe.

California Democrats are seeking to penalize companies who are forced to buy greenhouse gas (GHG) emission permits as part of California’s “cap-and-trade” program, fresh off a victory over business owners who sued to have the program overturned as an illegal tax.

A small group of California Republican legislators are reversing their opposition to AB 32 — the “Global Warming Solutions Act” — and embracing California’s controversial climate change policies.

A California appeals court denied a challenge to the state’s lucrative cap-and-trade program by California business owners on Thursday—who argued the program constituted an illegal tax.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the most aggressive climate change bill yet in America on Thursday, calling the new SB 32 “far-reaching” and “backed up by the real power of the state of California.”

An economic study produced by a top Jerry Brown administration contractor claims that although California’s SB 32 climate change bill will destroy lots of existing jobs, that is fine — because Silicon Valley will receive lots of subsidies.

The California Senate voted overwhelmingly — and surprisingly — to extend the state’s landmark AB 32 cap-and-trade law to limit so-called “greenhouse gasses” for another decade to 2030.