{"id":12381,"date":"2011-04-25T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T22:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=12381"},"modified":"2018-02-02T00:41:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T00:41:50","slug":"in-cap-and-trade-fight-ej-groups-offer-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/04\/25\/in-cap-and-trade-fight-ej-groups-offer-options\/","title":{"rendered":"In Cap and Trade Fight, EJ Groups Offer Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspend cap-and-trade, or stop the whole show.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the options offered by the environmental justice groups who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiareport.org\/archive\/R201103220850\/a\">won a court ruling<\/a> against the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in March. The groups <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/08\/why-ej-groups-are-leery-of-cap-trade\/\">were seeking to halt cap-and-trade<\/a> over health concerns for communities located near industrial polluters. A California Superior Court judge ruled that CARB had violated state environmental law by not adequately considering alternatives to cap-and-trade, and suspended all 68 regulations that implement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arb.ca.gov\/cc\/ab32\/ab32.htm\">California&#8217;s global warming law, AB 32<\/a>, until the board complies.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides entered negotiations to find ways for the state to move forward with parts of AB 32 other than cap-and-trade, but those talks<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/04\/01\/ab-32-negotiations-stalled-climate-regs-in-limbo\/#more-12122\"> broke down<\/a> on March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the environmental justice groups submitted their final documentation to the court, proposing two options. <!--more-->The first stops the implementation of all measures in CARB&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arb.ca.gov\/cc\/scopingplan\/scopingplan.htm\">Scoping Plan<\/a> for implementing AB 32. The other stops only the development of the cap-and-trade program, until an environmental review is completed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our preference is that the focus be on cap-and-trade,&#8221; said Bill Gallegos, the executive director of Communities for a Better Environment, one of the plaintiffs. &#8220;We mainly just want to make AB 32 stronger.\u00a0 There are very positive things in that law and we don&#8217;t want to see them all on hold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/03\/21\/another-wrench-in-ab-32\/\">CARB has said that it will appeal <\/a>the court&#8217;s decision. Should that happen, the appeals court could stay the recent order and allow implementation of AB 32 and cap-and-trade to continue.<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s cap-and-trade program, which is scheduled to launch in January of 2012, represents about 20% of the total emissions reductions called for under AB 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental justice groups offer the option of halting just cap-and-trade, but moving ahead with the rest of AB 32 implementation. 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