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A Flaw In California's Cap-And-Trade Plan, Alan Ramo, Janet Redman Nov 2013

A Flaw In California's Cap-And-Trade Plan, Alan Ramo, Janet Redman

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California has made clear its intention to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But is it taking the right steps to do so? The state has set a goal of returning to 1990 emissions levels by 2020. It has adopted renewable energy standards, driven the national trend in controlling automobile emissions and instituted a cap-and-trade program aimed at curbing climate pollution from power plants, refineries and other "stationary sources" of emissions. But a low-profile bill scheduled for consideration by the Legislature next year has exposed that, at least as far as its cap-and-trade program is concerned, California may be off-track. As it …


Comments On The Epa’S Advance Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking, Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under The Clean Air Act, 73 Fed. Reg. 44354 (July 30, 2008), Deborah Nicole Behles Nov 2008

Comments On The Epa’S Advance Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking, Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under The Clean Air Act, 73 Fed. Reg. 44354 (July 30, 2008), Deborah Nicole Behles

Environmental Law and Justice Clinic

On behalf of Communities for a Better Environment and Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic at Golden Gate University submits these comments in response to EPA’s Federal Register publication of its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act, which solicits public comment on how to respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA and how to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. 73 Fed. Reg. 44354 (July 30, 2008).