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Texas Refiners Mum About Funding Push to Halt Calif. Climate Law
- New York Times (new window)
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2010-03-03 |
| The money behind a campaign to suspend California's landmark climate law and place the proposed delay before voters in November is coming from a pair of refiners based in San Antonio, Texas, according to several well-placed sources in Sacramento. | |
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Help Build Support for More Green Jobs
- Various Articles
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2010-01-22 |
| Despite overwhelming evidence that growing the green economy is the way out of recession, industry front groups continue their attempt to roll back California’s landmark clean energy laws. | |
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Where the Action Is on Climate
- New York Times (new window)
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2010-01-03 |
| Even as many members of Congress resist as too hard or too costly the steps necessary to address global warming, American cities and states - the largest of which have carbon footprints bigger than those of most nations - have quietly been making serious commitments to curb emissions. Instead of finding reasons to do nothing, Congress should build on these actions to fashion a national response to climate change. | |
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Remarks of President Barack Obama - Copenhagen Summit
- White House Press Secretary
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2009-12-18 |
| Remarks of President Barack Obama on the final day of the Copenhagen Summit on global warming, Dec. 18, 2009. | |
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Official: Obama to attend climate-change summit
- CNN (new window)
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2009-11-25 |
| President Obama will go to Copenhagen, Denmark, next month for the climate-change summit, a senior administration official said Wednesday. | |
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Nuclear power: less effective than energy efficiency and renewable energy?
- Los Angeles Times Greenspace (new window)
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2009-11-17 |
| If the U.S. wants to help stop global warming, nuclear power is not the way to go, according to a new report released today. | |
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Obama Seeks China's Support For Success Of Copenhagen Climate Change Summit
- RTTNews (new window)
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2009-10-21 |
| U.S. President Barack Obama sought China's cooperation to push for the adoption of concrete and meaningful steps in facing up to the challenges of Copenhagen Conference on climate change. | |
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Calif. officials hail Obama's emissions standards
- CBS Ch 5 (new window)
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2009-05-20 |
| President Obama has announced a new national automobile fuel standards policy in an agreement likely to end automakers' ongoing legal dispute with the state of California's stricter emissions standards. | |
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Huge surge of lobbyists for climate change
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2009-04-01 |
| House Democrats opened the congressional debate on climate change Tuesday by unveiling an ambitious plan to boost renewable energy and simultaneously slash domestic greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent over the next decade. And California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is poised to lead the fight in the Senate. But the new focus on climate change in the nation's capital has been accompanied by another kind of change: an explosion of lobbyists trying to influence the final shape of proposals by Boxer and Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, and Ed Markey, D-Mass. | |
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Air regulators show no letup in war on emissions
- San Diego Union Tribune (new window)
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2009-03-02 |
| Even during this deep recession, California's air-quality regulators are on an accelerated schedule to adopt a series of global warming initiatives considered unmatched worldwide. | |
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Obama clearing way for California emissions waiver
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2009-01-26 |
| President Obama will direct the EPA today to reconsider a Bush-era decision that stopped California and more than a dozen other states from setting their own stricter limits on auto emissions, according to sources familiar with the matter. | |
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Obama helps CA tighten emission standards
- ABC 7 (new window)
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2009-01-26 |
| SACRAMENTO, CA (KGO) -- President Obama paves the way for California and other states to tighten emission standards. It's a proposal that could shake up the auto industry, but could improve our air quality. | |
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California Adopts a Plan on Emissions
- New York Times (new window)
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2008-12-11 |
| California regulators on Thursday adopted the country’s first comprehensive plan for curbing emissions of heat-trapping gases. The plan establishes the broad outlines of a system of trading pollution permits and allocates among various industry sectors — transportation, smokestack industries, housing and others — the responsibility for cutting emissions to 1990 levels in the next 12 years. | |
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California adopts the most sweeping curbs on greenhouse gas emissions in U.S.
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2008-12-11 |
| California regulators adopted the nation's first comprehensive plan to slash greenhouse gases Thursday and characterized it as a model for President-elect Barack Obama, who has pledged an aggressive national and international effort to combat global warming. | |
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Study Shows California's Temperatures on the Rise
- KPBS Radio (new window)
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2008-10-16 |
| A study by an environmental group shows temperatures in California are getting hotter especially in the Central Valley. The study done by Environment California blames global warming. | |
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Area’s average temperature up
- Bakersfield Californian (new window)
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2008-10-16 |
| A report released Wednesday said global warming caused Bakersfield’s average temperature to rise .5 degrees in 2007 over the average temperature for the 30 year-period from 1971 to 2000. | |
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Feeling the Heat - New report says West warming rapidly
- Sacramento Bee (new window)
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2008-10-15 |
| A report released today by the non-profit group Environment California says that 2007 was the 10th warmest year on record in the United States and that the mountain West, in particular, experienced above-average temperatures. | |
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The Western Climate Initiative
- The California Report - KQED (new window)
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2008-09-23 |
| California now has a general agreement with six neighboring states and four Canadian provinces on how to put the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions. It's being called the most comprehensive plan of its kind, but the deal known as the Western Climate Initiative still has a lot of details to be filled in. | |
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Western initiative proposes emissions-trading plan
- Associated Press (new window)
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2008-09-23 |
| Seven western states and four Canadian provinces on Tuesday proposed a comprehensive program to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, manufacturers and vehicles. | |
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California joins big carbon-trade partnership
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2008-07-24 |
| California, six other Western states and four Canadian provinces launched plans on Wednesday for one of the world's largest carbon-trading systems, a sweeping effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. | |
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Air Board outlines its plans to conquer greenhouse gases
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2008-06-27 |
| California's air board unveiled the nation's most ambitious plan Thursday to require cleaner cars and fuels, energy-efficient buildings and more electricity from the sun and wind to cut greenhouse gases in the state. | |
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State blasts emissions proposal
- San Jose Mercury News (new window)
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2008-04-24 |
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's top air pollution regulator Wednesday denounced the federal government's proposal to demand higher fuel efficiency in new cars because a 24-word passage written into the Bush administration's 417-page plan would block California's aggressive efforts to enact its own emissions standards. | |
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Editorial: State regulators too timid on greenhouse-gas proposal
- San Jose Mercury News (new window)
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2007-06-20 |
| California air regulators will meet Thursday to make the state's first binding measures to help cut greenhouse-gas emissions 25 percent by 2020. Under AB32, the sweeping global warming law the Legislature passed last year, these "discrete early actions" must be implemented by Jan. 1, 2010 - a tight deadline in a world where regulations often percolate for two years or more. | |
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California's Efforts to Cut Emissions Slowed by Federal Government
- KBPS Radio (new window)
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2007-05-23 |
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Air board sets goals to reduce emissions
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2007-04-21 |
| Californians would have to buy cleaner gasoline and more efficient lightbulbs and face a new ban on a chemical backyard mechanics use to replenish air conditioners in cars under the first proposals aimed at meeting the state's landmark law to reduce greenhouse gases. | |
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National Public Radio Program About Supreme Court Global Warming Decision
- National Public Radio
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2007-04-03 |
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Senate Dems unveil emissions bills
- Sacramento Bee (new window)
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2007-02-27 |
| In a challenge to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's much-touted plan to reduce greenhouse gases, Senate Democrats on Thursday unveiled a sweeping package of bills that impose new industry regulations rather than rely on the market-based approach the Republican governor has taken. | |
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State starts work on plan to curb greenhouse gases
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2007-01-23 |
| California's first-in-the-nation effort to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases officially began Monday, as the state regulators began public hearings to craft a carbon-reduced economy. | |
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Feinstein, Boxer differ on global warming
- L.A. Times (new window)
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2007-01-18 |
| California's two senators this week offered markedly different approaches to slowing global warming, with Dianne Feinstein saying she may move to exempt power companies from her home state's landmark global warming laws and bring them under federal regulation instead. | |
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In Perspective: Supreme Court to Hear Calif. Global Warming Case
- CBS News 5 (new window)
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2006-11-28 |
| California has always been on the cutting edge when it comes to auto emissions. We've had tougher laws than the other states, to the point where cars bought elsewhere had to be brought up to California emission standards. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether California's tough standards will live or die. | |
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