Letters: Cap-and-trade concerns

Orange County Business Council has serious concerns over California’s renewal of the cap-and-trade program. While the revenues from this program are supposed to be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in support of world-leading climate goals, past distribution of funds generated by the program has been inequitable, leading to a growing disparity between Southern Californian and the Bay Area. The six-county SCAG region has nearly half of the state’s population and two-thirds of th