Sentences with phrase «warming solutions act»

«This study, along with a few others we've published recently, quantifies greenhouse gas emissions from multiple source sectors in a way that will both enable evaluation of AB32 (the California Global Warming Solutions Act) and help guide efforts to mitigate emissions in the future,» Fischer said.

And from the NY Times, Charles and David Koch, the billionaires from Kansas who have played a prominent role in financing the Tea Party movement, donated $ 1 million to the campaign to suspend the [California] Global Warming Solutions Act...

Fran Pavley, Former California Assemblywoman A three - term Assembly member, Fran Pavley authored the landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and the Clean Car Regulations Bill (AB 1493), which has served as a model for legislation in ten other states and Canada.

As directed under the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) and affirmed this summer in the MA Supreme Judicial Court decision Kain et al., Republican Governor Charlie Baker's environmental agency was tasked with ensuring the Commonwealth achieves greenhouse gas emission reductions of 25 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2020, and to guarantee that it is on its way to meeting reductions of 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

In 2008, the Massachusetts legislature unanimously passed a law called the Global Warming Solutions Act («GWSA»).

California has a confusing welter of climate policies, but the place to start is with AB 32, the «Global Warming Solutions Act,» passed by the legislature in 2006 and signed into law by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

California's cap - and - trade program is only one element of its broader climate change initiative, as authorized in the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and the 2016 extension bill SB 32.

The state's Global Warming Solutions Act, passed in 2006, mandates that the state reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent — and yet agriculture is the only sector not subject to regulation.

The state already has an 80 percent reduction by 2050 on the books as part of the Global Warming Solutions Act.

SAFEGUARD fills a gap for communities, which are responsible for meeting the requirements of environmental laws passed by the legislature, such as AB 32, California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, but may not know where to start or how to proceed.

The foundation for the state's pollution - fighting activities is a 2006 law, the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), which called for reducing the state's global warming emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Assembly Bill 32 (Núñez, Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006), the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, established the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and serves as the comprehensive framework for addressing climate change.

Assembly Bill 32 (California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, or AB 32) requires the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020.

If the bullet train is derailed because of the failure of a key aspect of the «Global Warming Solutions Act», it would mean its trip to Karma is complete.

The state's AB 32 legislation, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires a reduction in state GHG emissions by 2020 to its 1990 level of 431 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent per year (MtCO2e / year).

I would like our Legal Insurrection readers to consider that the California cap - and - trade was installed as part of the 2006 «Global Warming Solutions Act».

Max Gomberg: California has been a leader on climate change issues since 2006, when it passed AB32, or the California Global Warming Solutions Act, and it is maintaining its leadership role.

The legislation would also extend our state's Global Warming Solutions Act by adding 2030 and 2040 to the targets for reducing carbon pollution.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB32) established a comprehensive program of regulatory and market mechanisms to achieve quantifiable, cost - effective reductions in greenhouse gases.

Our 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act requires annual limits on each category of the Commonwealth's emission of greenhouse gases.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and later Cabinet Secretary, the Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor, where Terry was the architect of many groundbreaking sustainability policies, including California's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the Hydrogen Highway Network, and the Million Solar Roofs initiative.

And in 2006 California adopted the nation's first economy - wide program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Global Warming Solutions Act.

The Pavley Bill of 2003, AB 1493, limiting cars» greenhouse gas emissions, and AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, charge the state's Air Resources Board with developing policies and regulations.

More striking, California's Global Warming Solutions Act (Assembly Bill 32, or AB 32) will likely lead to the creation of a very ambitious set of climate initiatives, including a statewide cap ‑ and ‑ trade system (unless it's stopped by ballot initiative — Proposition 23 — or a new Governor, depending on the outcome of the November 2010 elections).

The different policies being introduced specifically to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions vary from international treaties, e.g., the Kyoto Protocol (2005), to national laws, e.g., the UK's Climate Change Act, 2008, and even regional legislation e.g., California (USA)'s Global Warming Solutions Act, 2006.

In the case of California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), the answer flows directly from the very nature of the problem — global climate change, the ultimate global commons problem.

In brief, the CPP is a plan to cartelize state energy policies along the product lines of California's Global Warming Solutions Act and the Northeast States» Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

While an expanded RGGI can not serve as a direct compliance option for the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act in and of itself, there is great potential for it to help Massachusetts meets its carbon dioxide reduction mandate.

Meanwhile, as the ongoing 2016 RGGI Stakeholder Process continued, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued a decision concerning the enforcement of the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act.

excerpts: Cap and trade is one of the main greenhouse - gas - reduction components in the implementation of AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.

California passed the Global Warming Solutions Act, establishing a cap - and - trade program that year that many believed would set the stage for a federal program.

As California lawmakers prepare to launch the state's cap and trade program as part of its Global Warming Solutions Act, or AB32, indigenous leaders traveled to Sacramento to urge officials not to include an international forest - based carbon offset mechanism, known as REDD, in the law.

[From Green Car Congress:] California legislative leaders and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reached agreement on a compromise version of an assembly bill (AB 32 — the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006) that is intended to bring statewide emissions of greenhouse gases back down to 1990 levels by 2020 — an estimated cut of 25 %.

Within the context of Connecticut energy demand and climate laws, the team is reviewing and synthesizing the findings of three separate New England natural gas demand reports released in 2015, examining issues related to compliance with Connecticut's Global Warming Solutions Act, and placing these findings in the context of expected near - and medium - term capacity and demand of natural gas in Connecticut.

The context is California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32), a prime mover for mitigation of GHG emissions in the state.

Such data and modeling frameworks will allow CARB to track progress towards fulfilling the mandates of California's Global Warming Solutions Act, Assembly Bill 32.

The Center has been active in getting the state of California to address these emissions along with those of other sources under the Global Warming Solutions Act, and we've published a report detailing the problem and its solutions.

When he was the Governator (evidently he must have thought this was an acting job), he stuck the citizens of California with what is known as Assembly Bill 32: the Global Warming Solutions Act.

Some proponents of the law bashed the report, saying that the study did not weigh the economic benefits of the Global Warming Solutions Act, known as AB 32.

As the refining of bitumen from tar sands mines creates particularly dirty fuel, Valero and the other oil companies crawling around northern Alberta aren't happy to see California's Global Warming Solutions Act survive Proposition 23.

By failing to do so, the court said, the DEP was falling short of complying with the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act, which says that by 2050, greenhouse gas emissions be reduced by at least 80 percent below 1990 levels.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent by 2020 through market - based mechanisms.

While critical for avoiding dangerous climate change, because of the way that gas leaks are currently under - accounted for in the Commonwealth's emissions inventory, fixing them does little to address Global Warming Solutions Act compliance.

California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

In 2006, after being bombarded with «man - made global warming» hysteria, our state legislators approved the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (i.e., AB32) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources throughout the state and work via a «cap and trade» system.

When it is signed into law by Brown, SB 32 will extend the climate targets adopted by the state under Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which required California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

We joined a delegation to Sacramento sponsored by E2 with the Greentech Innovation Network (founded by venture capitol firm Kleiner Perkins) that Governor Schwarzenegger said helped convince him to support for the pioneering Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32).

Legislators will soon vote on whether to extend Senate Bill 32, the state's Global Warming Solutions Act.

But even if Massachusetts got even more out of its existing electric sector emission reduction programs by following these examples, that still leaves a 1.9 million metric ton gap to compliance with the Global Warming Solutions Act in 2020.

With only 52 months left to achieve this Global Warming Solutions Act target, Massachusetts will need quick action from its Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, along with strong collaboration from legislators, environmental advocates, utilities, and local governments.