Statewide Survey PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and the Environment By Mark Baldassare, Dean Bonner, Rachel Lawler, Deja Thomas Jul 12, 2023 Key findings of the survey include: Most Californians think it is very important that the state take steps now to respond to climate change, though views vary across party lines. An overwhelming majority say that extreme weather events are a problem in their part of the state. A majority believe the use of electric vehicles helps address climate change; half have seriously considered getting one, and nearly one in ten have already done so.
California Economic Policy, Report Learning from California’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Program By Louise Bedsworth, Margaret R. Taylor Sep 12, 2007 Although it received little notice when it was created in 1990, the Zero-Emission Vehicle program has helped to bring thousands of extremely clean new vehicles to California roads by 2007. The result has benefited air quality, but through very different means from those the program’s creators intended. This issue of California Economic Policy explores the development and modifications to the state’s innovative ZEV program, and the issues it raises at the intersection of public policy and technology development. Lessons learned from the ZEV program may help in decisions about how California could most effectively tackle the problem of greenhouse gas emissions.