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Professor of Environmental Law at UCLA and Faculty Director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment
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Ann Carlson
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FROM Ann Carlson
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Can California fight climate change? July was the hottest month since scientists began keeping records. This year is on track to be the hottest year yet. And now NASA is saying that the planet is warming at a pace unprecedented in the last thousand years. Well, California is working to fight that. But it’s going to take a lot more than just putting solar panels on every roof. A new law mandates an additional 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the state by 2030. How will that happen?
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California Launches Cap and Trade Program with First Auction Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 32 , which put California into the cap and trade business. Today for the first time, so called "carbon credits" went on sale to manufacturers, utilities and other polluters, allowing them to continue discharging carbon dioxide into the environment — but for a price. As time goes on, the credits will cost them more, with the goal of reducing emissions back to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Only Europe has a bigger cap and trade program, and California may be out on a limb. At his news conference today, President Obama said he wants a green economy to fight against climate change, but that other priorities are paramount.
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