Clean energy and clean tech sound exciting, but most people don’t see these businesses as a major part of our economy, especially when traditional fossil fuels rule at the pump. But thanks to policies like California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard and cap and trade, more and more businesses are giving us options when we need […]

Beer lovers – now that I have your attention – let’s talk water. Nowhere in the country is water more critical an issue and looming risk than in my home state of California… critical to farmers, utilities, businesses, and yes, even breweries.  The current drought has brought a host of challenges for our growing state, including more wildfires, […]

By Emily Reyna and Larissa Koehler To mark the 44th Earth Day, EDF has released a new Green Roads map celebrating clean transportation, an economic sector that is helping the Earth by producing groundbreaking and sustainable technologies. We Californians like to drive, but unfortunately our dependence on petroleum is harming our state, giving us the […]

EDF’s Innovators Series profiles companies and people across California with bold solutions to reduce carbon pollution and help the state meet the goals of AB 32.  Each addition to the series will profile a different solution, focused on the development of new technologies and ideas. Refrigerants are modern day inventions that allow us to keep […]

(This post first appeared on EDF Voices) In California, we’ve just marked the one year birthday of the state’s landmark cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to reducing the Golden State’s carbon pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. EDF thinks it’s a pretty big deal, and we’re not alone: the program weighed in at number one on Time’s […]

The results of California’s fifth carbon auction were released today, marking an important environmental milestone for the state – one year since the debut of its cap-and-trade system. While international climate discussions drag on in Warsaw, Poland, today’s milestone is further demonstration of the importance of California’s continued leadership on climate action, putting the world’s first economy-wide cap on […]

Yesterday, Thomson Reuters Point Carbon published an updated forecast for allowance prices in the California carbon market, causing many skeptics to pontificate the beginning of the end for cap and trade as we know it. But many failed to recognize what the market IS doing: Putting California on a fast track to reach its greenhouse […]

For those following cap and trade, today is another success for California’s economy and environment. The fourth auction came and went last Friday and the results published by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) are once again decisively positive. With complete sale of current allowances, diverse bidder participation and stable clearing price, the health and […]

By Emily Reyna and Katherine Hsia-Kiung   Last Friday, California companies participated in the fourth cap-and-trade auction since the program’s historic opening in November 2012. The results of this auction will be made public on Wednesday, but even without the exact numbers, the program’s previous success is proving the carbon market won’t be going anywhere […]

Six months ago, California launched the largest economy-wide cap-and-trade program in the world, in what many have deemed a grand experiment.  Many people watched nervously as the market unfolded, despite California having applied the lessons  learned from the growing pains of the EU ETS and from six years of crafting the market rules in consultation […]