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Feature: California Energy

Golden State Must Maintain Leadership on Clean Air, Climate

"California has shown bold and bipartisan leadership through its effort to forge 21st century standards" for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, President Obama said recently. Indeed, the Golden State has led the way on renewable energy development, clean air standards and greenhouse gas reduction. But now economic and budgetary concerns threat to erode that progress. NRDC experts explain why it's important for the nation and the world that California maintain its leadership role.

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Posted December 15, 2011 by Noah Long in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming

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This week, the California Energy Commission unanimously approved a petition by NRDC and the Sierra Club to commence a rulemaking to strengthen and clarify CEC regulations on SB 1368, California’s Emissions Performance Standard (EPS).  The EPS, passed in 2006, precludes...continued

Solar Power, the Economy and the Environment Win Again in California!

Posted November 14, 2011 by Noah Long in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming

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California's Energy Policy Continues to Provide Valuable Lessons Going Forward

Posted November 11, 2011 by Lara Ettenson in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming

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Energy efficiency continues to be the cheapest, cleanest, fastest source of energy available today. Take California for instance. Over the last several decades, California has implemented a number of key energy policies – efficiency programs, innovative changes to the utility...continued

Good News for California Climate: A Ride Completed, a Bill Signed!

Posted October 10, 2011 by Noah Long in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably

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Last week I took a few days away from the office to participate in Climate Ride California, along with several colleagues from NRDC’s San Francisco and LA offices (see Amanda and Adriano’s blogs). It was a beautiful, often rainy, and...continued

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Posted August 10, 2011 by Noah Long in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming

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In a recent report issued by NRDC, we found that no matter which way you look at it, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is falling short on delivering energy efficiency.  Energy efficiency, by law, is the...continued

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Posted August 10, 2011 by Lara Ettenson in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming

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Last week, NRDC released our assessment of California’s publicly owned utilities’ progress towards achieving all cost-effective energy efficiency, evaluating both their achievements over the past five years as well as their targets through 2020. We performed this analysis to see...continued

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Posted July 20, 2011 by Noah Long in Curbing Pollution, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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Last week, I wrote that July 19th would be the next test of the California State Water Board’s resolve in finally enforcing the Clean Water Act to protect California Coastal Waters from a damaging practice called once through cooling (OTC)....continued

Is the State Water Board serious about protecting California coastal waters? Next week's vote will test their resolve, again.

Posted July 15, 2011 by Noah Long in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming

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The story is getting all too familiar: Once again, the California State Water Board is considering amendments to its sensible policy to phase out once-through cooling – an outdated and destructive technology that sucks billions of gallons of sea water...continued

A Brighter View of CFLs

Posted January 21, 2011 by Noah Long in Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment

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This week The Wall Street Journal published an unfortunate piece on the successful energy efficiency programs in California. The piece, The New Light Bulbs Lose a Little Shine (Jan. 19), focused on the ongoing controversy over exactly how much energy the California...continued

Good News: The CA Water Board holds its ground on Once-through Cooling

Posted December 15, 2010 by Noah Long in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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As my colleague Leila Monroe and I recently wrote, the CA state Water Board has been under intense political pressure to gut its Policy on once-through cooling, only months after its adoption.  The Water Board’s Policy sets a timeline for phasing out...continued

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