The Schwarzenegger Solution: R20
Borrowing from the “G-20” concept of international planning and cooperation, California’s governor opens his own clubhouse.
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Sketchy First Look at California Cap & Trade
The California Air Resources Board has released its “preliminary draft” of what a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases would look like in California. Fuzzy at this point.
Not With a Bang, But…
As “subnational leaders” from the around the world gather in L.A. next month to mobilize climate strategies, they may find that the ball is still in their court.
California’s Climate Partners Get Cold Feet
Evidence mounts that the WCI may be DOA, as California’s half-dozen partner states in the planned regional carbon market hit the wall with their legislatures.
Fire and (Less) Ice: California’s Climate Future
There was little “news” in this week’s report from California’s inter-agency Climate Action Team. The distillation of 37 academic studies mostly affirms what we’ve been hearing from multiple sources lately; that “severe and costly impacts” likely lie ahead as the state’s climate changes.
Western Cap-and-Trade Plan Taking Heat
Proponents of the Western Climate Initiative’s (WCI) climate action plan encountered some vocal critics on Tuesday as nearly 20 U.S. Senators and House members from 10 states, including California, challenged western governors to rethink the plan’s approach to cutting carbon emissions.
National Cap-and-Trade Program Unveiled
California’s largest electric utility joined with a coalition of about 30 companies and environmental groups today, in taking the wraps off a proposal for a national climate strategy. After two years of talks, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership is ready to put its plan before the new president and Congress.
AB-32: Now What?
Whew. OK, two years after California’s Global Warming Solutions Act was passed into law, the “solutions” package now has the force of regulation…sort of. Now comes the hard part.
Climate Summit Set to Start as L.A. Smolders
The Governors’ Climate Summit convenes Tuesday against the poignant–and salient–backdrop of the multiple wildfires and smoldering ruins ringing Los Angeles.
Proposed Plan for Reducing Emissions in CA
California is one step closer to implementing the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, of AB 32, the law that requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Today the California Air Resources Board released its proposed scoping plan for how to achieve this goal.