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Federal court clears way for Californians to save water and money

October 28, 2009

Posted by Kristin Grenfell in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, drought, efficiencystandards, virtualriver, waterconservation, waterefficiency

Today the 9th Circuit cleared the path for California to adopt efficiency standards that will save California more than 66 billion gallons of water, over 500 GWh of electricity, and 50 million therms of natural gas by 2025.  This would...

Itty-bitty fee... huge benefits for California

September 28, 2009

Posted by Kristin Grenfell in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
ab32, california, CARB, emitterfee

On Friday, the California Air Resources Board unanimously approved the AB 32 Cost of Implementation Fee Regulation, a minimal fee on the largest emitters of global warming pollution to help pay for California's ground-breaking efforts to reduce the pollution and...

California has a plan to reduce global warming pollution

May 12, 2009

Posted by Kristin Grenfell in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, climatechange, ghgemissions, globalwarming

Yesterday the California Air Resources Board took final action on the Scoping Plan to implement AB 32: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. The Scoping Plan lays out California's plan to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to...

We must take action NOW!

April 30, 2009

Posted by Kristin Grenfell in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
ab32, californiachamberofcommerce, franpavley

Earlier this week I was at the California capital, sitting in a packed hearing room waiting to testify about my bill, SB 31, authored by Senator Fran Pavley. Before SB 31 came up, another climate related bill, authored by Senator Dutton,...

Kristin Grenfell
Kristin Grenfell
Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects
San Francisco
Everyone in my family except for me is a public school teacher, so they were...
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