Environmentalists caused the pollution

Efforts to limit pollution by building housing near transit centers meet stiff resistance

It was California environmentalists who built useless transit centers in the first place.  They built these expensive and worthless transit system for the explicit intent of causing more, not less, global warming. The original design was about giving the liberal political class clean, public ride to work,l energy efficiency came in about third place in these designs.  Now California is stuck with the most energy inefficient transportation. Cal environmentalists cause more global warming.  Then they want an inflation adjustment in their public salaries, to cover the increased cost of energy.