UPDATE: Tuesday, July 25, 2017: Governor Edmund G. ‘Jerry’ Brown signed AB398 this afternoon.

By Patric Hedlund, TME

If you are among those who loathe those annual bills for $117 to $153 from CalFire—the State Responsibility Area (or SRA) fire fee—there is good news this week.

The California State Legislature on Monday night, July 17 passed Assembly Bill 398. Embedded deep within this extension of the Global Warming Solutions Act—also known as California’s breakthrough “cap and trade” program—is a…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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