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All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact Yesterday, the leaders of six Western states and two Canadian provinces agreed to their own regional climate pact, aiming to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The Western Climate Initiative ...
Topics: Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Bring in the Reserves Bush administration expands marine reserves off Southern California		10 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Bring in the Reserves Bush administration expands marine reserves off Southern California Ending eight years of debate and study, the Bush administration yesterday announced the expansion of a network of marine reserves around Southern California's Channel Islands. The move permanently bans recreational fishing in an area of some 150 square miles; nearly 80 percent of the area remains open to sport and comm ...
Topics: California, fishing, George Bush, news, oceans (all these topics)

Damn Environment, It's Always Getting in the Way Partisan eco-impasse stalls budget vote in California		09 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Damn Environment, It's Always Getting in the Way Partisan eco-impasse stalls budget vote in California California's massive state budget is nearly six weeks overdue, and a partisan eco-impasse is a major factor. The state Assembly passed a spending plan in late July, but it's stalled out in the state Senate. The current sticking point: the 37-year-old California Environmental Quality A ...
Topics: California, news, placemaking, politics, regulation, state politics (all these topics)

California's attorney general cracks down on emissions, gets some enemies in the process Will he be able to weather the storm?	David Roberts	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Here's another semi-old story that I'm just now getting around to (and yes, I've forgotten how I found it). It's deceptively significant. Using California's tough environmental regs, state Attorney General Jerry Brown is throwing some elbows, trying to force a range of projects from housing developments to oil refineries to show how they'll reduce emissions. He's trying to change extremely ingrained behavior at a fairly micro level, and he's getting a whole mess of ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Flo Nays Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast		07 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Flo Nays Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Navy to stop using mid-frequency active sonar in exercises off the Southern California coast through 2009. Noting that the Navy's own evaluation says the sonar exercises could disrupt marine mammal behavior in as many as 170,000 instances, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper fou ...
Topics: California, Department of Defense, litigation, news, NRDC, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Stupid on smart meters	David Roberts	01 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Southern California Edison wants to distribute smart meters to its customers. That's a great idea. Consumer group Utility Reform Network is fighting it. That is, as Kevin says, immeasurably stupid. Argh.
Topics: California, energy (all these topics)

Boxer Sticks It to Johnson Senate hearing probes EPA chief's delay on tailpipe decision		27 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Boxer Sticks It to Johnson Senate hearing probes EPA chief's delay on tailpipe decision Can U.S. states enact stricter tailpipe regulations than the feds? That question has been hovering in the air since California requested a waiver from the U.S. EPA in late 2005. Why no answer yet? At a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing yesterda ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, California, cars, climate, Congress, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

'Roo shoe diaries Court upholds ban on kangaroo-hide sneaks	Sarah van Schagen	26 Jul 2007	Gristmill
A California Supreme Court decision Monday upheld a 36-year-old ban on the import and sale of products made from various wildlife species -- specifically soccer, rugby, and baseball shoes made by defendant Adidas.The decision was hailed by animal rights groups for setting a precedent allowing states to protect species that the federal government no longer deems in peril.Meanwhile, Aussies (who apparently often serve 'roo on the barbie) are rather confused by the ru ...
Topics: animal welfare, Australia, California, wildlife (all these topics)

Cheney suppressed evidence of market manipulation in California power crisis New investigative report	David Roberts	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Don't miss Jason Leopold's crack investigative reporting on Truthout today: This story is based on a two-month investigation into Cheney's energy task force; how the vice president pressured cabinet officials to conceal clear-cut evidence of market manipulation during California's energy crisis, and how that subsequently led Cheney to exert executive privilege when lawmakers called on him to turn over documents related to his meetings with energy industry officials ...
Topics: politics, California, energy (all these topics)

Twenty-two Hours of Darkness and Two of Light California utility commits to massive solar buy, B.C. deals with oil spill		25 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Twenty-two Hours of Darkness and Two of Light California utility commits to massive solar buy, B.C. deals with oil spill Call it the light and dark sides of the energy industry: yesterday, as news spread that a major California utility will make a ginormous solar buy, a British Columbia neighborhood was drenched in crude oil spewing from a broken pipe. Related? Only ...
Topics: British Columbia, California, energy, news, oil, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

PG&E to buy 550 MW of concentrated solar from world's largest CS plant Solar has arrived	David Roberts	24 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Pacific Gas & Electric is buying 550 MW of concentrated solar. It's one of the biggest solar purchases ever, from what will be the world's biggest concentrated solar plant. The company is trying to conform to California's mandate that it get 20% of its power from renewables by 2010. According to Mr. [Fong] Wan [VP for energy procurement], about 12 percent of P.G.& E.'s electricity today comes from renewable sources, divided somewhat evenly among wind, biom ...
Topics: business, energy, solar voltaic power, renewable energy, California (all these topics)

Can't They Just Use the Ocean? Schwarzenegger announces $5.9 billion plan to battle drought		18 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Can't They Just Use the Ocean? Schwarzenegger announces $5.9 billion plan to battle drought California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced a $5.9 billion plan to prepare for his state's almost-certain continued drought and population boom. Taking the need to douse Big Agriculture as a given, Schwarzenegger called for construction of new reservoirs and dams -- but, true t ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Big Ag, California, news, state politics, water crisis (all these topics)

Schwarzenegger in dispute with staff who wants to implement global warming legislation How progressive can legislation be if it's never allowed to make progress?	Gar Lipow	06 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Dan Walters writes in the Sacramento Bee: The messy departure of the chairman and executive director of the Air Resources Board, if nothing else, reflects the extremely intense, largely clandestine struggle in the Capitol over how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's much-ballyhooed anti-global warming crusade is to be implemented. Schwarzenegger says he fired ARB Chairman Robert Sawyer last week because the veteran energy researcher was moving too slowly on cleaning up the ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, lying liars, politics (all these topics)

All Is Not Well in La-La Land Top Schwarzenegger air-quality officials depart under protest		03 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
All Is Not Well in La-La Land Top Schwarzenegger air-quality officials depart under protest If Arnold Schwarzenegger were a cobbler, his children would have no shoes. Or something like that. While the Governator has been busy spreading the climate gospel around the world, his air-quality agency is coming apart at the seams. Last week, Schwarzenegger fired Rob ...
Topics: air pollution, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, news, politics, shenanigans, state politics (all these topics)

The Long and Windy Road California is no longer leading the pack on wind energy	Kate Galbraith	28 Jun 2007	Main Dish
Last year, California suffered the ultimate indignity in its quest to be the "greenest state." It was passed by red Texas -- the oil heartland -- for the title of state with the most wind-power generating capacity. The numbers get even more depressing. Last year, California's wind capacity grew at a slower rate than any of the other top 10 wind-producing states. Texas's w ...
Topics: California, energy, innovation, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

The Tahoe Blues Blaze rages around Lake Tahoe; blame game begins in earnest		27 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
The Tahoe Blues Blaze rages around Lake Tahoe; blame game begins in earnest What's to blame for the raging fire that has burned more than 200 homes near California's South Lake Tahoe? Try the homogenous stands of white fir planted post-clear-cut by 20th-century miners. Or was it this year's low-snow winter and current drought? Perhaps criticism should be leveled at homeowners who failed to clear brush and o ...
Topics: California, deforestation, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Connecting land use and global warming California takes the lead	David Roberts	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
California is once again taking the lead: California Attorney General Jerry Brown has sued San Bernardino County, the largest in area in the contiguous USA and one of the fastest growing, for failing to account for greenhouse gases when updating its 25-year blueprint for growth. 'It's groundbreaking. California is just leading the way for other states and jurisdictions that will ultimately follow,' says Richard Frank of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy at ...
Topics: California, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, placemaking (all these topics)

Well, Uh, At Least No One Got Zero? California, Vermont, Connecticut top ranking of energy-efficient states		06 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Well, Uh, At Least No One Got Zero? California, Vermont, Connecticut top ranking of energy-efficient states Less than a week after California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) declared at an economic summit in Canada that clean energy is becoming the basis for "a new gold rush," his all-star state has topped an energy-efficiency ranking issued by the American Council for an Energy ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, energy efficiency, news (all these topics)

Flaws in the Boucher bill It would pre-empt state fuel efficiency laws	Joseph Romm	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
An energy bill is emerging from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but it has some "unacceptable" provisions, according to leading energy and environmental experts. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, has a draft bill online, along with summaries of key provisions. The bill has a variety of important provisions aimed at promoting energy efficiency in electricity and vehicles -- and some useful provisions ...
Topics: air pollution, Big Auto, California, cars, Congress, Ed Markey, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Nancy Pelosi, politics (all these topics)

Kudos to California ... Yet another pioneering green move from the state	David Roberts	29 May 2007	Gristmill
... for recognizing that coal is the enemy of the human race. This means all those proposed new Western coal-fired power plants will have to reduce their emissions via carbon sequestration if they want to sell to Cali, one of their biggest prospective clients. And if you ask me, the likelihood of sequestration on that scale working out economically any time soon is essentially nil, so this puts a serious damper on the financial case for building those plants at all.
Topics: California, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The 'Terminator' eyes Cali farmland Schwarzenegger to California farmers: Considuh this a divorce	Tom Philpott	27 May 2007	Gristmill
There's a fair amount of debate on Gristmill about how much green cred to give the Governator -- that A-list action hero of enlightened Republicanism. I don't follow California politics closely enough to venture an opinion. But I do know that promoting a policy that will result in yet more suburban sprawl and evict small- and mid-sized farmers from their land -- all in an effort to save chump change from the state budget -- hardly does Schwarzenegger credit. Over on ...
Topics: agriculture, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, placemaking, sprawl (all these topics)

In case you mistook Schwarzenegger for a green	Gar Lipow	25 May 2007	Gristmill
Ahnold cuts transit funding. (via Michael O'Hare)
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Nice Berk If You Can Get It Berkeley, Calif., goes all crazy with the green ideas		25 May 2007	Daily Grist
Nice Berk If You Can Get It Berkeley, Calif., goes all crazy with the green ideas Six months ago, voters in Berkeley, Calif., overwhelmingly approved a measure to reduce the city's emissions 80 percent by 2050. Now proposals have been laid out to accomplish that goal, including requiring builders to use green materials, making landlords provide free bus passes to tenants, informing reside ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change mitigation, news, placemaking (all these topics)

The Coal Shebang California says yes to stricter vehicle emissions, no to dirty coal		24 May 2007	Daily Grist
The Coal Shebang California says yes to stricter vehicle emissions, no to dirty coal California keeps pushing to be the Greenest State Ever, No Seriously, Like Ever. At an EPA hearing Tuesday, state officials demanded permission to enact vehicle emissions rules that would be stricter than federal guidelines. Under the Clean Air Act, states can follow either federal or California law, and 11 sta ...
Topics: California, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

Republican governors to Bush: Pull over and let us pass The federal gov't is blocking state efforts to fight climate change	David Roberts	22 May 2007	Gristmill
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell (R) take to the pages of the Washington Post to send President Bush a simple message: 'It's high time the federal government becomes our partner or gets out of the way.' At issue is the waiver Calif. and 11 other states need from the EPA to implement their new tailpipe-emissions standards. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court made it clear that California is perfectly within its rights to imple ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, climate change mitigation, politics, state politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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