http://suspendab32.org/
Posted on 10/29/2010 7:11:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Roughly 600 of California's major polluters -- from oil refineries to power plants and factories -- will face mandatory limits on the amount of greenhouse gases they emit, starting on Jan. 1, 2012, under new rules released today by state air regulators.
The facilities will be able to trade pollution credits under a new "cap and trade" market, and will be allowed to use projects that offset global warming, such as tree planting, to cover up to 8 percent of their emissions limits.
The new rules are part of AB 32, the landmark law signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006 and now at the center of a bruising ballot fight in next Tuesday's election. The law requires that California's greenhouse gas emissions be cut to 1990 levels by 2020, a drop of about 15 percent from current levels.
"Everything is designed to reward efficiency and clean energy," said Stanley Young, a spokesman for the California Air Resources Board, which wrote the rules. "This sends a signal that clean energy pays off, and that's where we want to be."
The air board -- a nine-member body appointed by the governor -- is scheduled to vote on the rules Dec. 16. If it approves them, as expected, California will become the first state in the nation with mandatory limits on emissions from a wide variety of industries that most climate scientists say are contributing to global warming through the burning of fossil fuels like natural gas, coal and oil.
Similar rules already are in place for 10 New England and East Coast states, but they only effect emissions from power plants.
Schwarzenegger has made global warming reduction efforts a centerpiece of his term in office.
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Unelected , unanswerable , unfettered..
Send aRnie and the green revolution a message.
Vote YES on Prop. 23.
California; blessed with still plentiful natural resources, allows itself to be rationed.
Lemmings, swimming frantically seaward...
Screw those bastar$ They are just about finished. THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING -— NONE!!!
No, everything is designed to reward leaving California.
http://suspendab32.org/
fyi
These people won’t be happy until they’ve driven all major employers from the State. The only people left will be the State Workers, College Professors, Hollywood types—and the illegals who serve them. Think a West Coast version of the Phillipines.
“Everything is designed to reward efficiency and clean energy,”
Everything is designed to set limits at the sweet spot where business will buy the most offsets and NOT change practices.
This makes me wonder what other numbers have been overestimated.
Guess Calif. is going to be translated as “Come and live in Florida” again.
Hope the tree hungers enjoy living like New Englander’s did circa 1700 because that is where they are going. How long will the money hungry politicians allow their citizens to freely import non-green products from the rest of the nation/world?
Yup , the same,, and it was 340%... but hey, what’s a few nanoparticles between friends.;-)
I pity the decent people in California if Jerry Brown is elected governor and more of this environmental BS is pushed. The state will be totally bankrupt and there will be a massive exodus of businesses and individuals from the state.
Last one out of California turn out the (CFL) lights.
It’s not too late for a new state. North California
The Lung Association is running ads to stope the “pollution.”
Talked with office worker Tuesday who was unaware what Prop 23 (AB32) was about. Explained: carbon dioxide not a pollutant.
...and in short ... I am afraid ...
The Kiss of Death.
Once a factory (belonging to a profit seeking enterprise) becomes unprofitable, it is nearly always shut down and mothballed. Kalifornia is killing its future.
I understand we (California) only lost 114 major companies last year...the next couple of years should finish off the state.
Either that or we lose a star which would be just fine by me.
I would not want the memory to live on so how about calling it Shasta or something like that?
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