 Stories About: climate AND climate change mitigation AND news AND politics AND state politics
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We Will Connecticut You Now
Connecticut goes big with emissions-reducing goals |
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06 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:50 PM on 06 May 2008 The Connecticut senate has unanimously passed a bill aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, becoming the fifth state to pass such legislation (after California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Washington). The bill would require Connecticut to reduce emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050. If, as expected, Gov. Jodi Rell (R) signs it into ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Connecticut, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, progress, state politics (all these topics) |
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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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State Statement
Governors gather to gab about climate |
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16 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:18 AM on 16 Apr 2008 A group of influential governors will meet this week at Yale University to discuss taking the reins in the fight against climate change. The discussion will center around "blending a set of state efforts, some of which are already up and running, with an emerging federal climate system," according to Dan Esty, the director of Yale's Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Those state efforts includ ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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Them's the Brakes
Manhattan congestion-pricing plan kicks the bucket |
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07 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:06 PM on 07 Apr 2008 Hopes had run high that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ambitious congestion-pricing plan for the Big Apple would move forward, but the measure has died a quiet death. Democratic members of the State Assembly, determining that the measure was overwhelmingly opposed, neglected to even bring it to the Assembly floor, instead shooting it down with a secret vote. The now-dead plan would have cha ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics) |
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The Pricing Is Right
New York's new governor supports congestion pricing |
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24 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:40 PM on 24 Mar 2008 Brand-spankin'-new New York Gov. David Paterson has announced his support for a controversial congestion pricing plan. The proposal, put forward by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and supported by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, would charge $8 to drivers entering Manhattan during peak hours. Said Paterson in a written statement, "Congestion pricing addresses two urgent concerns of th ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics) |
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If At First You Don't Secede
Five western states form regional climate-change partnership |
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27 Feb 2007 |
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| If At First You Don't Secede Five western states form regional climate-change partnership Citing a federal leadership void, the governors of five western U.S. states have formed a regional partnership to cut greenhouse gases and fight climate change. The Western Regional Climate Action Initiative, which inc ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, state politics, Washington (all these topics) |
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