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Debate Over Key Climate Change Program Continues In Sacramento

Debate Over Key Climate Change Program Continues In Sacramento

Update: 2025-09-04
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At the state capitol, negotiations are heating up over California's signature program to fight climate change. It's called cap and trade, and the state uses it to cap greenhouse gas emissions. But the program expires in 2030, and lawmakers are debating how to extend the program amid rising energy costs and concerns about the closure of oil refineries.


Guest: Guy Marzorati, KQED




California, Oregon, and Washington are forming a health alliance to issue their own vaccine recommendations. The move comes in response to the Trump administration’s changing vaccine guidance.


Reporter: Lesley McClurg, KQED


A major new immigration detention facility has quietly opened in California’s Mojave Desert. But advocates say the private prison company that owns it has not obtained permits to operate. 


Reporter: Tyche Hendricks, KQED






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Debate Over Key Climate Change Program Continues In Sacramento

Debate Over Key Climate Change Program Continues In Sacramento

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