Posted by Kristin Eberhard in Solving Global Warming
We already know that California’s growing green jobs sector is a bright spot in this economy, but preliminary results from a recent survey by the Employment Development Department (EDD) (the folks who issue official state employment data) show three important...
Posted by Kristin Eberhard in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
The Valero Initiative has been dealt another blow: the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) has declared the study that the campaign is relying on to scare voters is “useless.” The Texas-based oil funded campaign to suspend AB 32 has been claiming...
Posted by Kristin Eberhard in Solving Global Warming
Last week, Ted Costa said that he opposes the ballot initiative that would suspend AB 32. He even wants to write the ballot argument against it. Costa was previously in support of the initiative, but changed his mind because secretive...
Posted by Kristin Eberhard in Solving Global Warming
Friday’s editorial, “Green Fantasies,” picked some numbers out of a draft report related to AB 32, but then mistakenly called those numbers “costs,” rather than the boon to California’s economy that they really will be. ARB’s Economic and Allocation Advisory...
Posted by Kristin Eberhard in Solving Global Warming
With such childhood stories as Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox suddenly theater blockbusters, it seems appropriate to harken back to a favorite childhood book when considering the California Air Resources Board (CARB)'s release today of its...
Posted by Kristin Eberhard in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
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...
Posted by Kristin Eberhard in Solving Global Warming
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...
Posted by Kristin Eberhard in Solving Global Warming
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...
Posted by Kristin Eberhard in Solving Global Warming
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,...
