Calif. regulators target tech industry emissions
tech.yahoo.com 2/27/2009 — Associated Press: California air regulators on Thursday broadened their reach into Silicon Valley, implementing rules intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions from semiconductor plants. The state Air Resources Board voted unanimously to regulate some ...

Climate Change Effects In California
sciencedaily.com 4/13/2009 — ScienceDaily: A biennial report released April 1 by a team of experts that advises California's governor suggests that climate changes are poised to affect virtually every sector of the state's economy and most of its ecosystems. Significant impacts ...

California takes on King Corn
wwwp.dailyclimate.org 4/20/2009 — Daily Climate: California regulators, trying to assess the true environmental cost of corn ethanol, are poised to declare that the biofuel cannot help the state reduce global warming. As they see it, corn is no better – and might be worse ...

Richard Stuebi: California Dreamin'
huffingtonpost.com 3/2/2009 — No-one has ever accused California of being timid. Certainly, in the area of energy and environmental policies, California has long been considered the leader among the 50 United States. But, maybe, California has bitten off more than it can chew -- ...

The California Solar Initiative - CSI
gosolarcalifornia.org 1/2/2009 — photo of large solar array in farm or vineyard? photo from CPUC A Decade of Support for Solar The California Solar Initiative is part of the Go Solar California campaign and builds on 10 years of state solar rebates offered to customers in ...

California regulators approve low-carbon fuel standard - San Jose Mercury News
mercurynews.com 4/24/2009 — As part of their efforts to meet California's aggressive goals to reduce global warming, state regulators on Thursday approved a new standard for all transportation fuels aimed at cutting the amount of greenhouse gas emissions they create. The new ...

California Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Prop 8 Legal Challenge on March 5
commondreams.org 2/3/2009 — The California Supreme Court announced today that it will hear oral arguments on Thursday, March 5, 2009 in the Proposition 8 legal challenge. The National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal, and the ACLU-with support from civil rights groups, religious organizations, labor unions, and ...

California's Wind Slowdown
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com 2/7/2009 — Why California got passed by Iowa in the wind power rankings.

California to ethanol: You're not helping
supereco.com 4/21/2009 — The California Air Resources Board (CARB), a governmental agency and part of the California EPA, is about to announce that the corn ethanol math just doesn't make sense. Months (and years in some cases) after mainstream media outlets have declared that it might actually take more than one ...

How California Could Affect Car Choices
businessweek.com 1/27/2009 — A directive from the Obama Administration on fuel efficiency is creating alarm among automakers By David Kiley and David Welch President Obama's order to the Environmental Protection Agency to review whether to grant a government waiver that could ...

Woman Bites Bus Driver For Not Driving A Hybrid — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 1/23/2009
The frantic passenger who bit a veteran driver's arm was upset that his bus wasn't a hybrid, he said Thursday. "She came on the bus, and she said she waited more than an hour for a hybrid," said MTA driver Peter Williams, 42. "I said, 'I'm not in ...