CARB, Not LAO, Is Authority on CO2 Reduction
The Legislative Analyst’s Office is a good source for statistical analysis of the state budget. If you want to know the potential financial impact of a particular proposal, or how much revenue a new...
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UCLA Study Misleads On Costs of HSR
A recent study from the UCLA Lewis Center argued high speed rail is less cost effective at reducing CO2 emissions than investing in local transportation projects such as buses, light rail, and...
View ArticleHigh Speed Rail and the Great Dithering
It’s Earth Day 2014, but few in the climate activism movement feel much like celebrating. After a hopeful few years in the late ’00s, progress on reducing CO2 emissions has ground nearly to a halt...
View ArticleWhy High Speed Rail Matters
This is why I am so adamant about building high speed rail: The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global...
View ArticleThe LA Times Gets West Antarctica and HSR Completely Wrong
This op-ed from LA Times editorial writer Karin Klein is one of the most appalling things I’ve read in a very long time. She uses the news of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet slowly collapsing to argue...
View ArticleAnti-HSR Zealots Sue To Stop Project, Claiming It Makes Climate Change Worse
Of all the lunatic claims touted by those who oppose high speed rail, this has to be the craziest. Stuart Flashman and David Schonbrunn of TRANSDEF, two leading anti-HSR advocates, are suing to stop...
View ArticleCLCV Explains Why HSR Is So Important for California’s Environment
The president and chair of the California League of Conservation Voters, Rick Zbur, leads one of the state’s most important and effective environmental organizations. (He’s also the new Executive...
View ArticleWhat’s Stopping Climate Action?
Protests are being held around the world today as part of the People’s Climate March. I’m all for the march and I wish them success. It’s also a good occasion to remind ourselves of what is really...
View ArticleSmash a Toy Train, Get $25 Worth of Gas
Just two days after the historic People’s Climate March, Republican candidate for governor of California Neel Kashkari has decided to celebrate by inviting people to a Burbank gas station to smash a...
View ArticleAbout Wasting Time and Money
Tuesday’s high speed rail groundbreaking in Fresno has been, by all accounts, a big success. The event itself was fairly standard – lots of speeches from elected officials, including Governor Jerry...
View ArticleThe False Choice Republicans Pose on Trains and Water
Republicans, such as Congressman Kevin McCarthy, love to argue that the state is wasting money on high speed rail when they should be spending it on addressing the drought. Of course, building high...
View ArticleCalifornians Support Action on Climate Change
The Public Policy Institute of California is out with a new poll that found strong support for AB 32, for cap-and-trade, and for other actions to tackle climate change – even if those actions aren’t...
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