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Will Boxer, Pelosi, and Waxman Pre-empt Their Own State?

Mike Sandler | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: AB 32, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Boxer-Kerry, Green News
Mike Sandler

The climate change bill pre-empts California's ability to set a tighter cap on greenhouse gas emissions. Why have Boxer, Pelosi, and Waxman traded away their own state's special status?

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Gov. Schwarzenegger Peeks in the Shower, and Talks Climate

Greg Dalton | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: AB 32, AB 920, Solar Energy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Climate Change, Meg Whitman Governor, Politics News
Greg Dalton

In his crusade to cut greenhouse gases California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has included a call to cut water use across the parched state by twenty percent per person.

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Misguided: Whitman Wants to Roll Back California Climate Plan

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nrdc, Meg Whitman, Solar Energy, Ab-32, California Legislature, Wind Energy, Climate Change, California, Politics News
Heather Taylor-Miesle

Whitman says she would place a moratorium on AB-32 by executive order. It's hard to imagine a more effective way to choke off the burgeoning clean energy economy.

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Too Good To Be True?

Robert Stavins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Common Property Resources, Free Rider Problem, Cost-Effectiveness, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Regulation, Global Climate Policy, Externalities, California, AB 32, Energy Efficiency, U.S. Senate, Waxman-Markey Legislation, Cap-and-Trade, Environmental Politics, U.S. House of Representatives, Green News
Robert Stavins

I had thought that arguments about massive "free lunches" in the energy efficiency and climate domain had long since been laid to rest. The debates in California (and some of the rhetoric in Washington) prove otherwise.

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NOVA's "The Big Energy Gamble": The Challenge of Climate Narratives

Ben Carmichael | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Max Boykoff, Van Jones, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Global Warming Solutions Act, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, AB 32, Obama Environment, Stephen Chu, Andy Revkin, Joe Romm, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Environment, Climate Change, Chuck DeVore, Nova, Global Warming, Wgbh, Green News
Ben Carmichael

This is the problem of narrating climate change: it lacks the natural elements that make for a gripping story. Our earth's climate is a reality unfit for reality TV.

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Climate Lessons from Kyoto to Sacramento to Poznan

Mike Sandler | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: European Emissions Trading, AB 32, Cap and Trade, Poznan, Emissions Trading, Climate Change, Green News
Mike Sandler

Based on the outcome of the last international agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, we shouldn't wait around for an international treaty to save the day.

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A Moment of Truth for the Golden State

Eric Schmidt and Alan Horn | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green

Read More: AB 32, Energy Efficiency, Corporate America, Reducing Emissions, Eric Schmidt, Green Business, Global Warming Solutions Act, Alarn Horn, Global Warming, Green News
Eric Schmidt and Alan Horn

Our companies are not in the energy business, but both of them are making substantial investments in energy efficiency and clean power, not just to be good corporate citizens but because it's good for the bottom line.

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Greening Hollywood: Governator Schwarzenegger Is Green on Energy

Paige Donner | Posted 05.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Ronald Stoltz, Cap and Trade, Milken Institute, Anne Korin, Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles, John Bryson, Solar Panels, New Majority, Flex-Fuel, Safeway Inc., Governor Schwarzenegger, AB 32, Nuclear Energy, Energy Independence and Security Act, G. Chris Andersen, Sandia National Laboratories, Global Warming Solutiosn Act, Set America Free Coalition, Edison International, Global Security, Joseph Pettus, Alternative Energy, Living News
Paige Donner

Governor Schwarzenegger is "determined to terminate global warming." A Green Arnold - so, does that make him, like, the Incredible Hulk?

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