Report Are efficient vehicles affordable for low-income Californians, and are these vehicles readily available on California’s auto market? Our conclusion: robust minimum efficiency standards are key to maximizing the benefits of EFMP vehicle replacement, and more than enough affordable vehicles are available on California’s auto market to make such standards reasonable.

California’s high-tech, best-in-class transportation strategies risk unintentionally leaving out an important segment of the population: the sizeable, largely low-income subset of Californians who cannot afford electric cars or reach public transportation.

As California focuses in on new, high-tech, best-in-class transportation strategies, it risks leaving behind an important subset of households and communities who could most benefit from the transition to a cleaner, cheaper, and more sustainable transportation future.

ven with immediate and significant steps to curb climate change risks, managing the unavoidable risks and costs of a warmer world will be expensive. The high costs of responding, rebuilding, and preparing for the future will be the responsibility of already overburdened federal, state, local, and tribal governments, and – directly and indirectly – the American people. These costs may well represen

We’re now about as certain that climate change is real and man-made as we are that cigarettes kill. To take the analogy further, by not acting to curb climate change, we’re immersing the planet in a huge, inescapable cloud of second-hand smoke.

Harvard professor Robert Stavins guest posts this week. Check out his latest essay on California’s cap-and-trade program, from his excellent blog, "An Economic View of the Environment."

If you knew that offshore fracking was happening in California, you're one step ahead of state officials. There's tons more info our new report on the Monterey Shale.

We have electricity diversity. How can we get fuel diversity?

Extreme weather is picking up like Barry Bonds' home run average in 2001.

Sometimes we all need a reminder that we have the power, and agency, to do something about climate change.