And let it begin with California.
California will become the first state in the country to require industries to lower greenhouse gas emissions under a deal struck Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democrats that could dramatically reshape the state's economy ...
By 2020, when industries would have to lower carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 25 percent, solar panels, alternative fuels, and electric cars could be commonplace, according to advocates of the legislation ...
The legislation will require all businesses, from automakers to cement manufacturers, to reduce emissions beginning as early as 2012 to meet the 2020 cap. The state's 11-member Air Resources Board, which is appointed by the governor, will be charged with developing targets for each industry and for seeing that those targets are met. The board now will embark on a years-long process to fully develop regulations. The board could impose fees on some industries to pay for new programs that could do everything from requiring truckers to use biodiesel fuels to forcing farmers to handle animal waste differently.
The board is likely to set up a trading system that will allow companies to buy and sell emission credits, which would allow a company that made more emission reductions than required to sell credits to another business that hasn't reached its emission goal.
Progress. Once again, state leadership is stepping into the vacuum left by the feds' suicidally blasé approach to global warming.
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LegumeSam Posted 2:47 am
31 Aug 2006
http://ecosocialism.blogspot.com/
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sunflower Posted 3:39 am
31 Aug 2006
California (and NYC) have been leaders of North American culture, and industry. This will give California a huge economic advantage when U.S. carbon caps become federal law.
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miles44 Posted 4:33 am
31 Aug 2006
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0824-11.htm
http://thegreenmiles.blogspot.com
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Bikechess Posted 5:31 am
31 Aug 2006
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Tod Posted 7:30 am
31 Aug 2006
If you believe this is a big step, you likely believe that MoveOn has anything to do with moving the Democrats to the left.
"Because the world doesn't matter if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch
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LegumeSam Posted 11:04 am
31 Aug 2006
(especially the part where Foster argues:Insofar as Jevons' paradox continues to apply to us today--that is, insofar as technology by itself (given the present framework of production) offers no way out of our environmental dilemmas, which generally increase with the scale of the economy--we must either adopt Jevons' conclusion or pursue an alternative that Jevons never discussed and which doubtless never entered his mind: the transformation of the social relations of production in the direction of socialism, a society governed not by the search for profit but by peoples' genuine needs, and the requirements of socio-ecological sustainability.)
http://ecosocialism.blogspot.com/
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