California will join Northeast greenhouse-gas reduction program

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California will participate in the carbon cap-and-trade program being established in seven Northeast states, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) announced today. Linking in with the so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative -- which we suppose won't be so regional anymore -- will help California's industries comply with an impending mandatory cap on greenhouse-gas emissions. "Gov. Schwarzenegger wants to build a large, robust carbon trading market that will dramatically reduce emissions. The more robust the market, the more effective we will be," says a Schwarzenegger spokesflack, who obviously disdains girlie markets. While large corporate emitters of GHGs still aren't happy about the new California law capping emissions, a spokesflack for the California Manufacturers and Technology Association grudgingly agreed that "implementing a cap-and-trade and allowing manufacturers to offset some of the substantial costs will help manufacturers deal with the greenhouse-gas mandate." He added, "hmph."

straight to the source: ABC News, Associated Press, Samantha Young, 16 Oct 2006

see also, in Grist: California climate deal could help Schwarzenegger win reelection

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On Native Americans as environmental activists with special insights and an especially vulnerable situation, cf. also Peter Mathiessen, "Inside the Endangered Arctic Refuge," in the October 19 issue of the New York Review of Books:
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In 1979, in return for withdrawing their objections to drilling in the Wildlife Refuge, the North Slope Inupiat communities had received large subsidies to raise their health and education standards and to be freed from poverty. . . . Robert and Jane Thompson appreciated the benefits of a decent clinic and good school. But what will happen, they asked, "when the oil runs out and the land is ruined and the people have forgotten how to live in our old way?" The Thompsons were two of the few people in Kaktovik who still spoke out publicly against energy development in the refuge. . . . While most people in Kaktovik had accepted energy development in the 1002 section [the coastal plain of ANWR, crucial for the welfare of many species of birds and mammals], they had always been united against offshore drilling, for fear it might disrupt the migration patterns of the bowhead whale. In 2006, however, sighty-eight out of 188 villagers have come out publicly against development on land as opposed to the five people, not counting Thompson's wife, who were on his side when I visited Kaktovik just four years ago. In a phone call on August 13, Robert told me that through a new indigenous activist organization called "Red Oil," the Inupiat were making common cause with Indian communities all over Alaska in a desperate struggle against the disruption of habitat and the disappearance of sacred animals such as polar bears and seals, dangerous chemical contamination of their wild fish and game, and the fatal damage to their culture and their future that is already on the wind with the retreat of polar ice and the onset of global warming. Most biologists agree that the polar bear is doomed to vanish entirely in this century.
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Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 2:17 PM on 17 Oct 2006

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