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| 9/28/2006 | |
| With the ink barely dry on AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, Environment California launched a new campaign calling on congressional candidates to support policies to move America beyond oil and toward a cleaner energy future. America has the technological know-how and the resources to move away from dependence on oil and other fossil fuels and toward a cleaner, more secure New Energy Future. | |
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| 9/26/2001 | |
| In response to the California energy crisis, state policy makers have rushed to approve and encourage the construction of as many natural gas power plants as possible. This could have dangerous effects on the state's long-term energy stability. | |
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| 9/19/2005 | |
| Rising oil prices are pinching the American economy. And, if many oil industry analysts are correct, prices won’t be coming back down any time soon. Indeed, it appears that the era of "cheap oil"? may well be over. | |
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| 7/3/2001 | |
| In the current crisis mode of California energy policy decision making, state officials have been in a rush to build as many natural gas power plants as they can. While this will secure adequate supplies of electricity in the near term, the state has already approved more than enough of these plants and should now turn to developing renewable energy sources to satisfy future demand and retire old power plants. | |
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| 7/29/2003 | |
| As a solution to the state job crunch, clean energy advocates and policy makers called for continued development of California's renewable energy industry as a means of providing a job boost to the state. | |
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| 7/12/2007 | |
| America’s current energy system is dominated by fossil fuels, which pose serious threats to our health and environment and leave us vulnerable to price spikes and supply shortages. With the threat of global warming becoming increasingly urgent, we must make responsible energy choices today that ensure a safe, reliable power supply and a healthy environment for future generations. | |
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| 7/12/2005 | |
| ExxonMobil has the power to wreak significant damage on the world’s environment, but it also has the power to direct the oil industry and American decision-makers toward a new energy future. | |
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| 7/1/2004 | |
| The June 2004 Public Attitudes and Support for Solar Power Survey was conducted for Environment California Research and Policy Center by Baldassare Associates. The survey included telephone interviews with 600 likely voters living in California. Interviewing was conducted June 24-27, 2004. | |
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| 6/25/2002 | |
| California could take advantage of the job benefits of renewable energy by initiating long-term contracts or requirements that utilities obtain electricity from renewable sources. | |
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| 5/27/2004 | |
| Every Memorial Day weekend, families and friends pile into their cars and drive to the beach, national parks, and other popular tourist destinations. This Memorial Day, with gas prices soaring above $2 per gallon in some parts of the country, consumers will pay more for these weekend trips than in years past. | |
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| 4/4/2004 | |
| Updated Cost Analysis For Meeting A 20% Renewables Portfolio Standard By 2017 At The Los Angeles Department Of Water And Power | |
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| 4/30/2002 | |
| This report gives an overview of the energy policy challenges faced by local governments along with some very promising success stories. It then lays out policy prescriptions designed to help them reduce energy consumption and move toward cleaner energy sources. | |
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| 4/25/2005 | |
| Developing a thriving, self-sufficient solar power market in California can have huge benefits for the state—reducing air pollution, protecting consumers from volatile electricity prices, and reducing the need for expensive upgrades to electricity transmission and distribution systems. | |
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| 4/23/2007 | |
| Solar hot water systems capture energy from the sun to heat water for homes and businesses, thereby displacing the use of natural gas, or in some cases electricity, with free and limitless solar energy. Solar hot water could save California 1.2 billion therms of natural gas a year, the equivalent of 24 percent of all gas use in homes. To prevent global warming pollution, reduce dependence on imported fuel, and ease the price of natural gas, California should act now by jumpstarting a mainstream market for solar hot water. | |
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| 4/16/2003 | |
| According to this report, the state is at the forefront of renewable energy development. Not counting its solar resources, California has the potential to produce 81 percent of its current electricity needs from renewable energy sources-enough to power 21 million homes. | |
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| 4/1/2007 | |
| Capitalizing on rising energy prices, growing concern about global warming, and a favorable political climate, the nuclear industry is working to achieve a “nuclear renaissance.” After 30 years without a single new order for a nuclear power plant in the U.S., several companies are now in the early stages of proposing new nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, federal officials have begun routinely approving requests to run existing nuclear plants harder and longer than ever. A “nuclear renaissance” would be a bad deal for American consumers, the environment, public safety and national security. | |
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| 4/1/2001 | |
| California continues to face challenges satisfying its electricity demand. However, this does not preclude the state from making a transition toward clean energy sources. In fact, it offers the perfect opportunity to change the way the state generates its electricity and to use less power. | |
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| 3/9/2006 | |
| With this report, we quantify and qualify the motivations and experiences of homeowners who have recently purchased a new home in which solar panels were added as a standard feature. | |
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| 3/26/2003 | |
| According to this report, Los Angeles can significantly increase its use of renewable energy without negatively impacting ratepayers. | |
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| 12/21/2005 | |
| This report details how much oil and money citizens would save in 2006, if the Bush administration had increased gasoline mileage for cars and trucks four years ago. | |
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| 12/13/2004 | |
| Developing clean, abundant solar power resources in California can benefit all those who live and work in the state – reducing air pollution, protecting consumers from volatile electricity prices, and reducing the need for expensive upgrades to electric transmission and distribution systems. | |
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| 12/12/1997 | |
| Subsidies, at their best, are a government tool to encourage business activity that is in the best interests of the public at large. California's treatment of the oil industry involves subsidies at their worst unnecessary for the success of the industry, damaging to the environment and public health, and wasteful of taxpayer dollars. This report documents these subsidies and explores related aspects of state energy policy. | |
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| 11/19/2007 | |
| Legislation to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)standards for cars and trucks was included in the Senate energy bill (H.R. 6) that was passed in June of this year, marking the first time in over thirty years that either House of Congress has passed an increase in CAFE standards. | |
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| 11/19/2003 | |
| This report shows that air pollution is projected to increase as a result of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's (DWP) planned repowering of local power plants, based on information contained in DWP's Environmental Impact Reports and 2000 Integrated Resources Plan. | |
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| 11/14/2007 | |
| This report highlights state action in five areas of clean energy policy and the benefits of those actions. We give special recognition to a number of states that are providing clean energy leadership for America. | |
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| 11/14/2002 | |
| This report finds that Los Angeles is overly reliant on fossil fuels and nuclear power. | |
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| 10/27/2006 | |
| America can and must move away from our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels and toward a New Energy Future. We can do this by tapping into our abundant supplies of clean, renewable, home-grown energy sources and by deploying our technological know-how to use energy more efficiently. | |
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| 10/1/2004 | |
| The use of hydrogen as a fuel for cars and trucks has been touted as an environmentally responsible way to end America’s dependence on foreign oil. However, a transition to a “hydrogen economy” —if poorly executed—could extend America’s dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear power, while doing little to solve the severe environmental problems caused by our dependence on polluting and dangerous sources of energy. | |
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| 10/1/2001 | |
| The debate over California’s energy future has focused attention on a growing sector of the energy market. Homeowners and businesses are generating electrical energy near the place it is used as an alternative or supplement to the statewide power grid. | |
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| 1/4/2001 | |
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