Guest Commentary written by
David Cohen
David Cohen is a San José city council member
Vicki Veenker
Vicki Veenker is Palo Alto’s vice mayor
With the devastating Los Angeles blazes still fresh in memory, cities across the Bay Area region are developing plans to lower the climate-heating emissions that are fanning the flames.
But a dangerous new bill now threatens this progress. AB 306, while purporting to address the fallout from this year’s fires, could actually increase the risk of future fires and pause local progress to address other climate disasters…