Proposed initiatives in California call for additional funding, suggesting a fee on e-commerce deliveries as a solution. Colorado's successful implementation of this fee generated over $75 million in its first year. Given California's significant e-commerce revenue, the state could raise hundreds of millions annually. Transportation contributes the majority of California's emissions, leading to regulatory efforts since the 1960s. The state's authority to set emissions standards has faced challenges, including revocations of waivers by the federal government, impacting its regulations on vehicle emissions and sales of new gas-powered cars.
Several states have implemented a small fee for e-commerce deliveries that funds electrification programs, incentives, and grants. Colorado's program, which levies a fee of $0.28 per delivery and exempts small businesses, generated over $75 million over its first year.
With refineries closing across the country and corporate polluters constantly increasing their profit margins, Californians can't afford to be trapped by gas.
The majority of California's planet-warming emissions come from transportation - the same is true nationwide.
California has regulated its own vehicle pollution since the 1960s, before the Clean Air Act was signed into law in 1970.
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