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 Stories About: Al Gore AND California AND carbon tax AND climate AND greenhouse-gas emissions
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Target practice
On the art of setting (and hitting) emission targets |
Ken Johnson |
24 Jul 2008 |
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| Gore's call for 100 percent renewable electricity generation within 10 years may seem, at first blush, to be so far out in left field as to lack any seriousness -- but it has some commonality with established regulatory policy. For example, California's global warming law (AB 32) is rooted in Governor Schwarzenegger's Executive Order S-03-05, issued on June 1, 2005, ordering that 'the following greenhouse gas emission reduction targets are hereby established for Californ ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, California, carbon tax, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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