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Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : California Dreaming: Even In San Francisco, People Don't Want to Pay to Drive Downtown
blogs.wsj.com - 12/30/2008
Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : California Dreaming: Even In San Francisco, People Don't Want to Pay to Drive Downtown
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Are environmental initiatives too important to be left to voters? That's the issue raised by the squabble over congestion pricing in San Francisco. Making drivers pay extra to drive downtown at peak hours may have failed in New York, but surely in environmentally-friendly San Francisco ...
gosolarcalifornia.org - 1/2/2009
The California Solar Initiative - CSI
— gosolarcalifornia.org — 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 ... (more) The California Solar Initiative - CSI

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sfgate.com - 12/29/2008
United States: Getting renewable power to the people
— sfgate.com — San Francisco Chronicle: The Southern California desert could produce a gusher of renewable energy. Strong sunlight bathes... its open plains, even in winter. Powerful winds stream through its mountain passes. Fractures in the earth along the San Andreas ... (more) United States: Getting renewable power to the people

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sfgate.com - 12/30/2008
Drillers eye oil reserves off California coast
— sfgate.com — Millions of acres of oil deposits, mapped in the 1980s when then-Interior Secretary James Watt and Energy... Secretary Donald Hodel pushed for California exploration, lie a few miles from the forested North Coast and near the mouth of the Russian River, ... (more) Drillers eye oil reserves off California coast

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Earth2Tech — ... San Franciscans Resist Congestion-Pricing Plan: Public opposition to fees for driving into San Francisco raises the question of whether environmental initiatives are too important to be left to voters. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital ...

Support Wanes for the San Francisco Congestion Zone
Green Daily — ... -- you might think a congestion fee plan would pass with flying colors. But there's apparently a limit to what even the greenest metropolises are willing to do in the US. SF's once popular congestion pricing plan -- modeled after London's Congestion Zone -- is starting to run into road blocks as drivers and business owners line up against the $6 charge to enter the city. ...

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