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The meltdown of California’s cap-and-trade system of reducing carbon emissions has not only thrown its climate change crusade into disarray but caused collateral damage. One victim is Gov. Jerry Brown’s $3.1 billion plan to spend auction proceeds, now on indefinite hold. It not only affects a $500 million allocation for Brown’s bullet train project, but another $500 million for “low carbon transportation and fuels.” The latter is a centerpiece of Brown’s very ambitious drive to reduce petroleum use in auto travel – the largest single source of California’s carbon emissions – by 50 percent by 2030 even though the Legislature...

ALBANY, GA - A Georgia law that took effect last month requires all law enforcement agencies to sell most of the guns they confiscate to licensed dealers if they can't return them to the lawful owners. Gwinnett County's Police Department recently sold 62 guns for more than $10,000 and that money goes to the state. We talked to a number of South Georgia law enforcement agencies about Senate Bill 350, and like many new laws, many of the agencies have different opinions about what this new state law requires and how they will comply with it. The new Georgia law...