By Amel Ahmed : kqed – excerpt (includes audio track)
A new report indicates California’s much-heralded carbon trading program may actually be harming the neighborhoods it was designed to protect.
In the first study examining social disparities in California’s cap-and-trade program, researchers found that 52 percent of companies regulated by the program saw an increase in annual average greenhouse gas emissions — and those companies are largely situated in disadvantaged communities, historically hit hardest by environmental pollution… (more)
