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More Legal Wrangling over Calif. Climate Law
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Four states are preparing to sue if California voters decide not to delay the implementation of a law limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The planned suit by attorneys general in...
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Whitman Opposes Measure Delaying California Climate Law
SACRAMENTO (AP) – Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman on Thursday came out against a ballot initiative that would indefinitely delay California’s landmark global warming law, saying she...
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Global Warming Law Opponents Help Sponsor Fiorina Fundraiser
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Carly Fiorina worked to gain ground Thursday in raising money for her U.S. Senate race with at least two fundraisers in the nation’s capital, including one partly sponsored...
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Poll Shows California Voters Split On Global Warming Measure
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A new poll shows Californians are divided over an initiative to suspend the state’s landmark global warming law, although most consider global warming an important issue. A Los...
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Oil Industry Aids Effort To Suspend California Climate Law
SACRAMENTO (AP) — With major contributions from the oil industry, supporters of a ballot initiative to suspend California’s landmark greenhouse gas emissions law reported a fundraising tally Tuesday of...
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‘Avatar’ Director Cameron Pledges $1 Million To Fight Prop 23
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Movie director James Cameron is pledging to donate $1 million to fight Proposition 23, the ballot measure that would suspend California’s landmark global warming law. In making the...
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Schwarzenegger Urges Voters To Protect California Climate Law
SACRAMENTO (AP) – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday he doesn’t just want to defeat the November ballot measure that would suspend the state’s greenhouse gas emissions law—he wants voters to...
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California Adopts Sweeping Greenhouse Gas Rules
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California regulators on Thursday approved the first system in the nation to give polluting companies such as utilities and refineries financial incentives to emit fewer greenhouse...
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$46M Spent On Failed California Global Warming Measure
SACRAMENTO (AP) — More than $46 million was spent for and against a failed November ballot measure that would have suspended California’s landmark global warming law, according to campaign finance...
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Judge Orders More Review Into California Climate Law
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — State air quality regulators must conduct further analysis before fully implementing California’s landmark 2006 climate law, a trial court judge has said. In a tentative ruling...
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San Francisco Judge Halts California Cap-And-Trade Program
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A judge temporarily halted California’s ambitious program to provide financial incentives for the state’s largest polluters to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions. San...
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California Adopts Extensive ‘Cap-And-Trade’ Emissions Plan
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — California formally adopted the nation’s most comprehensive so-called “cap-and-trade” system Thursday, an experiment by the world’s eighth-largest economy that is designed to...
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Business Groups Protest California Carbon Market
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — Dozens of people, some wearing red “Save Our Jobs” T-shirts, packed a public meeting on Thursday to testify that a key component of California’s landmark greenhouse gas...
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California Set To Officially Launch ‘Cap-And-Trade’ Greenhouse Gas System
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — California’s largest greenhouse gas emitters will begin buying permits in a landmark “cap-and-trade” system designed to control emissions of heat-trapping gases and to spur...
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Business Group Files Suit Over California Greenhouse Gas System
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) — California’s largest business group filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the validity of the state’s cap-and-trade program on the eve of the first pollution permit auction. The...
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Calif. ‘Cap-And-Trade’ Unlikely To Spur Federal Emissions Cap Soon
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — California’s new system for limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions by putting a price on carbon is not likely to spur a similar federal program anytime soon, but it...
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Conservatives Sue California Over Cap-And-Trade
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — A conservative group is suing California over the state’s system of limiting greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources by putting a price on carbon. The Pacific Legal...
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Federal Court Upholds California Mandate On Cleaner Fuels
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — A panel of federal judges on Wednesday upheld California’s first-in-the-nation mandate requiring fuel producers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A three-judge panel of the...
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Top California Democrat Proposes Fuel Tax
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — The state Senate leader is proposing a tax on consumer fuel purchases of gasoline, oil, diesel, ethanol and natural gas, with the money raised diverted to transit projects and...
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Former Gov. Schwarzenegger Returns To State Capitol For Official Portrait...
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger lifted the curtain on his official portrait on Monday, revealing a photograph-like giant image of the onetime bodybuilder standing in front of the...
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