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The Buzz: Utilities already regulated under cap-and-trade urge Brown to hold fast
2014-07-19 01:25:19| Energy - Topix.net
Gov. Jerry Brown announced signing 15 bills Friday, including a gun control measure that closes an exemption for certain semiautomatic pistols from California's unsafe-handgun law.
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Oil companies try to weasel out of Californias cap-and-trade program
2014-07-08 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Like climate change, California`s cap-and-trade program is an evolving and growing beast. Since its official launch last year, power plants, cement producers, glass manufacturers, and some other heavy industries operating in the Golden State have been required to reduce carbon emissions and pay for the privilege of polluting the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases. In January of 2015, the program is due to expand to affect suppliers of natural gas and motor fuels, helping to further slow global warming...
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Business groups, lawmakers accelerate drive keep fuels out of California cap-and-trade program
2014-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A political push is underway to block California's carbon cap-and-trade program from expanding next year to include motor fuels. State Assemblyman Henry Perea (D) on Friday stripped text out of one of his bills that was sitting in committee and replaced it with language that would put a three-year moratorium on adding fuels to cap and trade. That followed two weeks of oil companies, business groups and some California lawmakers sending letters to Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and the head of the state's...
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Industry groups stir opposition to a cap-and-trade expansion they say will lead to higher gas prices
2014-06-30 21:07:13| Energy - Topix.net
In a conference call with oil industry analysts in late 2012, Mike Wirth, a Chevron Corp. executive, took stock of California’s greenhouse gas reduction policies and warned that the state’s plan to expand its controversial cap-and-trade program to vehicle fuels in 2015 would result in higher prices at the pump.
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Industry groups stir opposition to a cap-and-trade expansion they say will lead to higher gas prices
2014-06-30 09:09:03| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In a conference call with oil industry analysts in late 2012, Mike Wirth, a Chevron Corp. executive, took stock of California's greenhouse gas reduction policies and warned that the state's plan to expand its controversial cap-and-trade program to vehicle fuels in 2015 would result in higher prices at the pump.
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