There is another battle between the Trump and California administration.
An executive order of the White House issued earlier this week Wussen Wussen to reverse what he calls “all illegitimate impediments” by several states to develop US energy resources and called the California capitalization and trade program that has been in force since then.
But Governor Gavin Newsom and other state officials say CAP and trade are here to stay.
“California’s efforts to reduce harmful pollution will derail by a glorified press release disguised as an executive order,” said Newsom in a statement.
The limit and trade program requires electrical plants, natural gas suppliers and large industries in the golden state that emit greenhouse gases to buy permits on carbon pollution they produce.
The California Air Resources Board, which manages the program, calls it “a fundamental and profitable policy tool” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by establishing a market for negotiable emissions credits, which generates money in decarbonization.
Holder, “protecting American energy from state overreach,” Trump’s executive order said that the affordable and reliable internal energy supply is “threatened when state and local governments seek to regulate energy beyond their Constitution.”
The order accused New York and Vermont as stated that they use “extortion laws” in energy producers that emit greenhouse gases.
It also points to California, saying that the Golden State “punishes the use of carbon by adopting impossible limits in the amount of carbon that companies can use, almost forcing companies to pay large sums to the radifornia ‘commerce’ of Radifornia”. “
The order continues to say that such “laws and policies arouse our national security and devastate to Americans by increasing energy costs for coastal families to coast, despite the fact that some of the families of the doors that do not live or vote in the states with paralyzing thesis policies.”
And he directs us to the United States Attorney General to “quickly take all appropriate measures to stop the application of state laws and the continuation of civil actions … that the Attorney General determines being illegal” and “reaching any adejo and variety of lariaros of varying varying varying the laws and policies of Vary.
The specific steps can be tasks were not explained, but the president of the Air Resources Board told Union-Tribuno that the agency, known as Carb for abbreviation, is not a budget.
“It should be clear at this time that the only thing that the actions of the Trump administration are achieved is chaos and uncertainty, but one thing is safe: California will remain firm and fight to maintain our statement,
Carb officials said that the capitalization and trade program has financed $ 28 billion in climatic investments that have delivered “more than half a million projects throughout the state, supporting 30,000 jobs and cutting millions of tons of carbon emissions.”
Authorized by a couple of bills in Sacramento and approved with a two -thirds vote in the Legislature, the capitalization and commerce program was the first of its children in the nation. The state of Washington approved a similar measure and California and the state of Evergreen has been working to link its carbon markets with the Canadian province of Quebec.
The Executive Order of the White House is not the first time that Trump tries to fly to the limit and trade.
Duration in its first term, the Trump administration tried to block any link between California and Quebec. But a Federal District Judge eliminated the case in 2020.
If another confrontation is coming, California attorney general, Rob Bonta, earlier this week, told Politico that the State “remains committed to using all the force of the law and the Tols of this office to address the frontal climate crisis and protect public health and well -being.”
California’s capitalization and trade program has its critics, which sometimes label it as “limit and tax”.
The program enters the rates and taxes that drivers in California pay every time they go to the service station.
In October 2023, the State Legislative Analyst Office, the non -partisan fiscal and non -partisan policy of the state legislature, estimated that the capitalization and trade program only added ABS by a gallon of retail gasoline sold in the state.
Part of the money raised by CAP and trade is disbursed in the form of a California climate loan that automatically provides a reduction in energy invoices for all customers served by public services owned by state investors, such as San Diego Gas & Electric.
Twice a year (once in spring and once in autumn), customers received discounts on their electricity bills; And once a year (in spring), those with natural gas connections in their homes receive a reduction in their natural gas invoices.
The amount of the credit varies every year, depending on the amount of income generated by the limit and the commercial program.
This year, climate credit will eliminate $ 81.38 of all SDG & E electricity states in the April billing cycle. Another reduction of $ 81.38 will come in October.
SDG & E residential customers with natural gas will see a reduction of $ 54.21 in their gas invoices this month.
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