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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Getting the Architecture Right: The Economic Implications of Cap and Trade Policy
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC: NOVA's "The Big Energy Gamble": The Challenge of Climate Narratives
My Green Element: One Step Closer to Kyoto
Switchboard, from NRDC: SB 728: Expanding California’s Parking Cash-Out Program, or “How much for that space, buddy?”
Green Options: REALLY, MEG? Suspending Climate-Change Legislation AB32 is Backwards Thinking
Getting the Architecture Right: The Economic Implications of Cap and Trade Policy
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... on households, researchers found the following: with no revenue recycling, the lowest economic quintile lost about 10 percent of their income due to higher prices. With revenue recycling, they gained nearly 15 percent, while the highest quintile lost only about 2.5 percent. This isn’t just about carbon… it turns out that cap and trade could be the largest economic redistribution program the US has ever seen. Now it’s important to point out that the WCI is not the final word – the states are crafting their own systems . And while we hope that they go further, ...
NOVA's "The Big Energy Gamble": The Challenge of Climate Narratives
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC —
... Big Energy Gamble," a show that premiered Tuesday night on NOVA, contains more than a kernel of climate truth. But it also contains more than one mistake common to climate reporting, as well. That makes it is an important documentary about an important topic, but not, I suspect, for the reasons the creators had planned. The documentary takes as its subject California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, known as AB-32. The Bill sets GHG reduction targets of 1990 levels by 2020, and then a further 80% below 1990 by 2050. ...
One Step Closer to Kyoto
My Green Element —
... In the efforts to improve the environment, reduce our dependence on imported crude, diversify energy solutions, enhance public health, and create new jobs, California is the first state to adopt such stringent requirements with regard to climate change. The California Air Resources Board has been charged with implementing this legislation, and President Obama has indicated that he will be following the state’s lead in order to implement a similar program on the national level. ...
SB 728: Expanding California’s Parking Cash-Out Program, or “How much for that space, buddy?”
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... California has historically been an environmental leader. Three years ago, we passed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, the nation’s first statewide program to reduce global warming pollution, and last year we passed ...
We must take action NOW!
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... 2) Most of the regulations under AB 32 won't take effect until 2012, so arguing that the economy is bad right now so we need to delay right now doesn't make sense. ...
REALLY, MEG? Suspending Climate-Change Legislation AB32 is Backwards Thinking
Green Options —
... last week stating she’d suspend California’s landmark climate-change legislation, AB32, on her first day if elected governor. This is backwards thinking, and I disagree. ...
Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO and occasional voter, wants to be governor of California so she can end its leadership in clean energy and destroy its climate
Climate Progress —
... last week stating she’d suspend California’s landmark climate-change legislation, AB32, on her first day if elected governor. This is backwards thinking, and I disagree. ...
