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By Our Power Combined
California utilities scuffle over cap-and-trade |
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21 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:42 AM on 21 Apr 2008 California is well aware that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is easier said than done. The state's attempts to craft an effective cap-and-trade system are causing infighting among public utilities and their privately owned counterparts. Public utilities, which source more of their power from coal, protest that they're going to end up paying out the nose to the state and seeing the money red ... |
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| Topics: business, California, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation, state politics (all these topics) |
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What Can Brown Do for You?
California A.G. petitions feds to regulate shipping emissions |
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03 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:07 AM on 03 Oct 2007 California Attorney General Jerry Brown will join with environmental groups today to petition the Bush administration to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from ocean-going vessels. Shipping accounts for up to 5 percent of global GHG emissions, a number expected to grow 75 percent in the next 20 years. Ocean-going vessels make 11,000 calls at California's ports each year, but ... |
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| Topics: business, California, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation (all these topics) |
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