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Your Call: Is California's cap & trade program a polluter loophole or a step forward?

  

The extension of California’s cap-and-trade program has divided environmentalists. The five-year program requires companies to buy permits to release greenhouse gas emissions. 

While some call it a historic victory, critics from groups like Food & Water Watch say it allows polluters simply pay a fee to continue poisoning our climate. What do you think? Is cap and trade a polluter loophole or a step forward? 

Guests: 

Adam Scow, California director at Food & Water Watch

Judson True, chief of staff for California Assemblymember David Chiu

Quentin Foster, director of the Environmental Defense Fund

Web Resources:

Environmental Defense Fund: California Models Climate and Air Pollution Action with Balanced Approach

Food & Water Watch: Food & Water Watch Disappointed by Passage of AB 398, Cap-and-Trade Bill

Mercury News: Jerry Brown, lawmakers announce California climate deal

The Guardian: Breathless in Bakersfield: is the worst air pollution in the US about to get worse?

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.