By Guy Marzorati, KQED News Fix/The California Report
In recent months, Gov. Jerry Brown has made clear that an extension of the state’s cap-and-trade program will need GOP support.
“It’s going to take some Republicans,” he said at a California Chamber of Commerce breakfast last month.
He echoed the sentiment weeks later when he said Republicans were “the key” to extending the program (set to expire in 2020) that allows companies to buy and sell credits that allow them to pollute.
Read the complete story at KQED News Fix/The California Report.
For more information about the state cap-and-trade program, read the San Francisco Public Press Summer 2013 special report on California’s cap-and-trade program, in collaboration with Earth Island Journal and Bay Nature magazine.
