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4.4 Cents and Sensibility
Bay Area initiates first-of-its-kind fee on biz greenhouse-gas emissions |
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22 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:18 AM on 22 May 2008 Businesses in nine San Francisco Bay Area counties will pay 4.4 cents for every ton of greenhouse gases they spew, after the district air-quality board voted 15-1 Wednesday to approve the fee. Set to take effect July 1, the fee will affect more than 2,500 businesses; the district estimates that perhaps seven power plants and oil refineries will have to pay more tha ... |
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| Topics: business, California, carbon tax, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, regulation, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Living for the City
San Francisco unveils plan to fight global warming |
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29 Sep 2004 |
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| Living for the City San Francisco unveils plan to fight global warming Saying that global warming "is a real and looming threat to our economy, our public health, and our environment" to which the Bush administration "is not paying attention," San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) this week unveiled a plan to reduce the city's greenhouse-gas emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. Much of t ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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