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Psst, your California Climate Credit is increasing – and so is your potential dividends donation

Karen Barnes enjoying her increased climate credit

By Mike Sandler, Cofounder of The Climate Center Psst, you’re getting money back from a carbon price.  The California Climate Credit is one of the best kept secrets in the world of climate policy.  It was created in 2014 by the California Public Utilities Commission to return revenues from the State’s Cap & Trade program back to … Read more

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Testifying in Fresno at the public hearing on watering down vehicle emissions standards

Destiny Rodriguez at the SAFE hearing in Fresno, Sept. 2018

I woke Monday morning feeling poorly. My nose was stuffed, my eyes irritated and runny, my chest in pain. These are the effects of residual unhealthy air quality from the last week. Despite the fact most of the larger fires have been contained in the surrounding area, the heat from the Valley bakes the already … Read more

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The Center’s electric vehicle survey well-received at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco

by Isabella Burch, The Climate Center On September 12, Ann Hancock, Jock Gilchrist, and I had the great honor of participating in a panel discussion entitled “Gas/Diesel Car Phaseouts: Global Strategy To End Gasoline Use”. This was an affiliate event for the larger Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. Hosted by Coltura and the … Read more

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Tangier Island and Island Earth

I was about ten or eleven years old in the early 1970s when I visited Tangier Island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay with my family. It left quite an impression. We walked the neighborhood streets, visited the crab, oyster, clam and fishing docks, and stopped in to a few shops before finding a … Read more

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Exit fee: Hot topic at 3rd annual Community Choice Association meeting

Read on to see how you can help Last week I attended the 3rd annual meeting of the California Community Choice Association (CalCCA). With nineteen operational agencies now serving California, well over 200 people were in attendance. There were two major themes this year: The first was the rapid acceleration of Community Choice Energy in … Read more