SACRAMENTO, CA — Today, California Environmental Voters (EnviroVoters) released the following statement in response to the California Air Resources Board (CARB)’s Cap-and-Invest proposal, which will be voted on May 28th.
After the federal government’s refusal to issue California Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance following the 2025 Los Angeles fires, free pollution permits for industry threaten the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) that generates billions of dollars that are reinvested in clean transportation, energy efficiency, and climate resilience projects.
Statement from Shannon Olivieri Hovis, Chief Strategy Officer, California Environmental Voters:
“On the heels of last year’s industry giveaways and growing federal hostility, Big Oil wants to gain at the expense of Californians. Again. Cutting GGRF revenue in half over five years, costing the state $2 billion annually, is not a workable solution. At a time when families are struggling with rising costs driven by climate disasters and corporate greed, polluters are looking for free passes to pollute and delaying accountability to keep Californians stuck on fossil fuels – an energy source that is destructive, expensive, and unreliable. Kneecapping Cap-and-Invest strips low-income and disadvantaged communities of critical funding, resulting in more pollution, higher energy and transportation costs, local jobs eliminated, worse health outcomes, and deepening economic inequities. CARB needs to act quickly to fix this Big Oil giveaway and put Californians first.”
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CONTACT:
Erika Guzman Cornejo
(310) 755-1615
erika@envirovoters.org
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