(The Center Square) - Republican legislators pushed back against California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement that almost $865 million acquired from some of the state’s biggest emitters will pay for affordable housing and clean transportation projects , among other efforts funded by the state’s cap-and-trade program.

“We saw that in 2022, wildfires erased nearly 20 years of emission progress,” Assemblymember Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale and a member of the Assembly Transportation Committee, told The Center Square. “I’m a bit frustrated by that, and unfortunately, the administration still has no comprehensive wildfire prevention strategy. I think it’s a little bit disingenuous to brag about climate leadership while doing so little to stop the biggest source of our pollution and devastation -

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