Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies: How to Ensure California Climate Policies Deliver Jobs, Justice, and Affordability

How to Ensure California Climate Policies Deliver Jobs, Justice, and Affordability

This year’s annual oversight hearing of the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies will focus on the same question that drives the Senate’s Commit to California plan and two recent Senate oversight hearings: Can a more jobs and justice-oriented approach to state climate policy, also drive affordability? 

This Committee believes the answer to this question is yes.  But, achieving these goals will require renewed political and economic certainty that have made California’s climate policies so durable over the years.  The future of the state’s cap-and-trade program post-2030 lies at the center of this debate.