Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/20/2011 4:21:49 PM PDT by george76
California Air Resources Board due to vote on the adoption of first US mandatory cap-and-trade emissions scheme...
the California Air Resources Board was due to vote on Thursday afternoon on the adoption of an emissions trading scheme.
"This is the final yes: we are going to move forward with California," said Gary Gero, president of the Climate Action Reserve, a voluntary registry.
The decision was seen to be significant because California accounts for about 13% of the world economy, and the state has a history of being the leader on environmental initiatives.
"California can drive national action," Gero said.
The decision comes at a time when Republican leaders in the rest of the US are denying the existence of man-made climate change.
In Washington, a Republican-controlled Congress is cutting budgets and rolling back environmental protections.
Meanwhile, a number of states have defected from regional – and voluntary – carbon trading systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Funny, The jet stream brings into Calfronia tons of pollution from China and Asia, the japanese nuclear accident is also contributing, as well as a soon to be visit by the japanese tsunamis debris field coming soon. So.....the regulations that will strangle and kill California is a pay to play scam to fill the pockets of these criminals and nothing more.
More like California is going to drive itself into the ground.
Let's hope the rest of the nation can avoid this fate.
It’s approved, let the fraud begin.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/20/3992001/california-approves-carbon-trading.html#ixzz1bN8iuXyu
and the slide continues
If the $.99 Occupiers in Sacramento had any grasp of capitalism they would be camped out around the California Air Resources Board (CARB) skyscraper. CARB is more toxic to California’s economy than every coal factory in China.
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