Originally published on the NRDC website. By Alex Jackson California’s new roadmap for reducing carbon pollution shows that the state is on track to cut emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020, and spotlights how the state’s leadership is helping spur action by others around the world to tackle this … [continued]
California’s third cap and trade carbon allowance auction was held last week, and businesses snapped up all available 2013 permits, setting a record price level in the process. In addition to the 2013 permits, over three-quarters of advance allowances for 2016 were sold to businesses.
California has set the date and details for a second CO2 emissions allowance auction to be held February 2013, under the state’s cap-and-trade system.
California has been pushing towards a goal of connecting itself to a much larger carbon market, and is well on its way to that goal with its forthcoming emissions trading scheme with Quebec in 2013, the state’s chief air regulator said on Monday. Mary Nichols, chairperson of the California … [continued]
A NREL study concludes lithium is used more sparingly in hybrid cars per pound of carbon saved than in an EV. This has lead to false conclusions that a hybrid is better than a BEV.
Environmental justice groups who believe that a carbon tax will be more effective than cap and trade in lowering pollution sued and won in California’s lower court in February, and the case went to Superior Court in San Francisco.
