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| At a ceremony in San Francisco, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made history today, signing into law the nation’s first statewide cap on global warming pollution, a measure that will reduce emissions in the nation’s most populous state by 25 percent in the next 14 years. | |
| A total of 104 U.S. Representatives, including 30 from California, sent a bipartisan letter today sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, urging him to approve a waiver that California and 10 other states need to implement their clean cars program, which will limit global warming pollution and other harmful emissions from cars and SUVs. | |
| Capping emissions and making polluters pay for putting global warming emissions into the atmosphere is the most economically efficient and fair approach to cutting global warming pollution nationwide, according to a new report released today by Environment California. | |
| Following California’s historic action on global warming two weeks ago, a new report released today by the Environment California Research and Policy Center shows that this year’s unprecedented heat wave is part of a broader trend of rising temperatures. In California, July 2006 was the third warmest July on record, with the average temperature 3.7°F above the historical average. | |
| What’s a ball of yarn got to do with solving global warming? The owner of Bentley Prince Street, California’s largest carpet manufacturer, will tell you it’s got everything to do with taking simple steps to cut back on energy consumption, reduce global warming pollution and, in so doing, save the company money. | |
| On the day the Legislature is poised to pass the Global Warming Solutions Act – AB 32 – a broad coalition of environment groups, religious and health organizations delivered 30,000 signed postcards, collected by Environment California over the past three months, to Gov. Schwarzenegger in support of state action on global warming. Standing on the steps of the state capitol with a giant, 20-foot inflatable globe as a backdrop, the coalition praised the bill’s sponsors, Speaker Fabian Nunez and Asm. Fran Pavley, as well as Gov. Schwarzenegger for the state’s unparalleled leadership in addressing global warming. | |
| The leadership of the California Legislature and Gov. Schwarzenegger have reached an agreement today on California’s historic global warming bill, AB 32 (Pavley/Nunez). | |
| With City Hall as a backdrop, a 20-foot-tall inflatable globe was erected in Los Angeles to generate support for the Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32 (Nunez/Pavley). Environment California, the group conducting the global warming tour, is using the prop to raise attention for the historic global warming bill during the final four days of the legislative session. | |
| With legislation pending before the state legislature to cap global warming pollution, a new report released today by Environment California Research & Policy Center shows how the rest of the country can meet – and even exceed – similar pollution reduction goals. The report finds that the U.S. can reduce its global warming emissions below 1990 levels within the next 15 years by boosting energy efficiency and renewable energy. | |
| Communicating their message in a way Gov. Schwarzenegger knows well—in newspapers and on film—citizens around California are calling on the governor to keep his promise to fight global warming. | |
| We commend British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for their commitments to take action to stop global warming. Combined, California and Great Britain can make a world of a difference on this most critical environmental issue. | |
| The average temperature in Fresno was 1.5°F above average in 2006, according to a new report released today by Environment California. Environment California said this warmer-than-normal weather is indicative of what California can expect with continued global warming. | |
| The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, AB32 (Nunez/Pavley) cleared its first hurdle this evening with a passing vote of 5/2 in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee. Numerous groups and individuals showed up to speak in favor of the historic policy that would establish first-in-the-nation regulations to cap global warming pollution on a statewide level. | |
| Los Angeles – At a hearing in Los Angeles today, the California Air Resources Board chose three “early action” measures as the first step in implementing California’s historic statewide cap on global warming pollution that will reduce statewide global warming emissions by over 25 percent by 2020. | |
| Global warming pollution in California jumped 85% between 1960 and 2001, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of government data released today by Environment California. Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the combustion of oil, primarily for transportation, and natural gas, primarily for electricity and heating, were responsible for 61% and 38% of this increase, respectively. | |
| The pollution reductions needed to stave off the worst effects of global warming can be achieved—if governments act now, according to a major consensus report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| The extraordinary and compelling risks global warming poses to California require immediate and well-reasoned solutions. As such, it is with great purpose that state officials in California have taken action to cut global warming pollution, and with great urgency that we ask the EPA to grant California’s waiver request for greenhouse gas emissions standards for motor vehicles. | |
| Approximately 20-30 percent of plant and animal species are at increasing risk of extinction if the global average temperature increases by another 2.2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a major consensus report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| Environment California delivered over 2,500 public comments to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) today as the state held a workshop to discuss measures it will implement to begin reducing global warming pollution pursuant to last year’s landmark law – AB 32. | |
| In a landmark decision in one of the most important environmental cases ever heard by the Supreme Court, the Court ruled today that the Clean Air Act gives the U.S. EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants from cars. | |
| Sacramento—Global warming pollution increased 18 percent nationwide between 1990 and 2004, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by Environment California. This is the first time that 2004 state-by-state data on carbon dioxide emissions have been released. | |
| Environment California applauded U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (CA) for introducing legislation today to fight global warming. The Safe Climate Act would limit global warming pollution to levels that current science says are needed to prevent the worst effects of global warming. The bill was introduced by a bipartisan group of more than 125 members led by Rep. Waxman, the chair of the House Oversight Committee and a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. 30 of California’s 53 members of Congress have cosponsored the legislation. | |
| Governors of five Western States today announced a regional plan to reduce global warming pollution. Under the Western Regional Climate Action Initiative, Oregon, California, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona will adopt pollution-reduction goals for the five states and a market-based program to meet them, such as a “cap and trade” program, within 18 months. | |
| SACRAMENTO—The world’s scientists are more than 90% certain that human activity – primarily burning fossil fuels to power cars, power plants, and factories – is responsible for most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century, according to a consensus report released early this morning by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| Scientists have said for years that global warming was “loading the dice” when it comes to increasing the frequency of severe storms, and a new Environment California report makes it clear that California is already experiencing extreme downpours much more frequently. Specifically, the new report found that storms with heavy rainfall are now 26 percent more frequent in California than they were 60 years ago. | |
| Environment California applauds Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Brown for their steadfast commitment to California’s Clean Cars Standard, and their leadership in pushing forward with real progress to solve global warming. | |
| The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments today in a landmark global warming case. The case will decide whether the Clean Air Act authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the pollution that causes global warming. | |
| Fresno is poised to face a tougher fight against smog pollution, according to a new report, Hot and Smoggy: The Ozone-Hot Weather Connection in Eight California Cities, released today by Environment California Research & Policy Center. | |
| Today’s announcement by Gov. Schwarzenegger that his administration will move forward to create a low carbon fuel standard is great news for California. | |
| In his State of the Union Address tonight, President Bush offered many promises and platitudes on clean energy and global warming, but paltry few policy solutions. The President failed to outline support for key policies that would actually put America on a path to solving global warming and forging a clean energy future. | |
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