{"id":13401,"date":"2011-06-13T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T21:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2011-06-13T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T21:21:19","slug":"air-board-hands-in-its-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/06\/13\/air-board-hands-in-its-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Board Hands in its Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Issues court-ordered do-over of alternatives to cap &amp; trade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In response to a court ruling (which it&#8217;s still appealing), the California Air Resources Board today issued a <a title=\"CARB - AB 32\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arb.ca.gov\/cc\/scopingplan\/scopingplan.htm\">new analysis<\/a> of its proposed carbon trading program, weighed against several alternative means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-13407\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/06\/13\/air-board-hands-in-its-homework\/rodeo_clouds_crop\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13407\" title=\"Rodeo_clouds_crop\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/06\/Rodeo_clouds_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Oil refineries are among California's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. (Photo: Craig Miller)\" width=\"255\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/06\/Rodeo_clouds_crop.jpg 255w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/06\/Rodeo_clouds_crop-160x142.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/06\/Rodeo_clouds_crop-240x213.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>The fresh look includes the original five options, including cap &amp; trade and the option of doing nothing at all. It does not add any new options but rather seeks to flesh out the other three. The non-trading options include regulating emissions at the source, implementing a straight-up tax on carbon emissions, and a mixed bag of actions. The reworked analysis expands discussion of those three alternatives from a few pages to more than 60. It will be up to the courts to decide whether the extra paper carries enough substance with it to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Regulators were sent back to the drawing board by a Superior Court ruling in May that favored plaintiffs in a <a title=\"CW - blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/02\/is-ab-32-headed-for-the-rocks\/\">lawsuit filed<\/a> by environmental justice advocates. The groups charged that the state sidestepped its own environmental laws in its original implementation plan for AB 32, stacking the deck toward a cap &amp; trade program, and giving <a title=\"CW - blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/02\/08\/why-ej-groups-are-leery-of-cap-trade\/\">short shrift to other approaches<\/a>. The judge agreed. The Air Board appealed but went back to work on alternatives, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The release of today&#8217;s &#8220;functional equivalent&#8221; document starts the clock on a 45-day period for public comment. The Air Board is scheduled to consider those comments at its meeting on August 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issues court-ordered reanalysis of alternatives to cap &amp; trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,75,203],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-13401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-business","tag-ab-32","tag-carb","tag-environmental-justice"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Air Board Hands in its Homework | Climate Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/06\/13\/air-board-hands-in-its-homework\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Air Board Hands in its Homework | Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Issues court-ordered reanalysis of alternatives to cap &amp; trade.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/06\/13\/air-board-hands-in-its-homework\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-06-13T21:21:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/06\/Rodeo_clouds_crop.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Craig Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@voxterra\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Craig Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/06\/13\/air-board-hands-in-its-homework\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/06\/13\/air-board-hands-in-its-homework\/\",\"name\":\"Air Board Hands in its Homework | Climate Watch\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-13T21:21:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-06-13T21:21:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/f7222c517400a6c4b0336fca3652c323\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/06\/13\/air-board-hands-in-its-homework\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/06\/13\/air-board-hands-in-its-homework\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2011\/06\/13\/air-board-hands-in-its-homework\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Air Board Hands in its Homework\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/\",\"name\":\"Climate Watch\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/f7222c517400a6c4b0336fca3652c323\",\"name\":\"Craig Miller\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/dd8f4f4f978df3faac9db4c510939ea0\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b91661df645e001a9cafe0861fa685f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b91661df645e001a9cafe0861fa685f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Craig Miller\"},\"description\":\"Craig is a former KQED Science editor, specializing in weather, climate, water &amp; energy issues, with a little seismology thrown in just to shake things up. 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