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California declares emissions-reduction target, requires industry to track emissions

Posted at 12:20 PM on 07 Dec 2007

As California's landmark global-warming law requires the state to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, the state Air Resources Board has determined just what that goal will be: 427 million metric tons of greenhouse gases. The number was devised from some 13,000 separate calculations, from the impact of the aviation industry to the number of cows and horses in the state to where Californians source their power. California currently emits some 500 million metric tons of greenhouse gases per year; officials estimate that if no steps are taken, that will jump to 600 million metric tons in 2020. To that end, California also became the first state to require that large industrial plants track and eventually report their greenhouse-gas emissions. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved a proposal to expand the city's port -- admitting that the project will increase emissions in the short term.

sources: Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, Los Angeles Times

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FREE DOE CONSERVATION PROGRAM

CA industry should take advantage of the free customized, intensive DOE energy audit and conservation programs. smaller industries are averaging savings of $55,000/year in energy bills, and larger companies often top $1 million/year in savings on energy bills.

nobody seems to know about this program, though - it's called "save energy now":

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/

this will also help reduce demand for energy, which will reduce propaganda by utilities that they need to destroy wilderness to create "renewable" remote generation/transmission projects. what is renewable about the permanent loss of habitat?

the greenest energy is that which you needn't ever produce.

by stopgreenpath at 1:47 PM on 07 Dec 2007

California global warming

There is talk about global warming but a lot of experts say there is no global warming. They say the ice caps on Mars are melting, too, and are we causing that? In Santa Barbara, they wanted to spend a lot of money painting a blue line showing where the water level would be if the ice melted. If they want to do something in California, why don't they raise money by ticketing all the millions of vehicles here with no front license plate because the law requires them. I heard of a site, www.StopOrganizedStalking.org and it is supposed to be good.

by GrizWhiz at 8:50 PM on 07 Dec 2007

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