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Drought and disease are ravaging one of California’s most precious resources – its trees. Water-starved pines have been infested with beetles, which have killed up to 40 million of the towering trees. And as many as 10 million oaks have succumbed to disease in a death spiral that is past the point of eradicating, according to research from scientists […]

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朱莉·卡特

• 7 月 12, 2016

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The Basics of Cap and Trade

What is cap and trade? California’s cap and trade program is a tool for putting a price on pollution, specifically carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, that businesses discharge into the atmosphere. The state sets limits—caps—on the volume of greenhouse gas that oil refineries, electricity providers, food-processing plants, paper mills, cement manufacturers and other companies […]

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CalMatters Staff

• 7 月 5, 2016

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With cap and trade in doubt, key questions go unanswered

The basics of cap and trade What is cap and trade? How do the auctions work? What projects are the auction proceeds paying for? How much has California lowered its emissions? What’s next? Assemblyman Brian Jones leaned in to the microphone with a tight smile. It was May, and legislators were debating whether to request […]

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朱莉·卡特

• 7 月 5, 2016

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Oil money flows for black and Latino Democrats

It’s not often that interest groups call out public officials by their race, but as environmentalists evaluated state lawmakers’ voting records last year, that is just what they did. Black and Latino Democrats “must do better” to buck the interests of the petroleum industry and help the communities they represent, the California Environmental Justice Alliance […]

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劳雷尔·罗森霍尔

• 6 月 1, 2016

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Reader reaction: Carbon credits essential to fighting climate change

This letter was sent in response to a letter that was published in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding California ponders expanding cap and trade to Brazil. We appreciate the concerns raised by James Feichtl regarding the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) forest protocols. Carbon credits are essential to combat climate change. If designed right, they have the […]

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Reader Reactions

• 5 月 24, 2016

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California ponders expanding cap and trade to Brazil

With feathers adorning his head and red paint decorating his face, Haru Kuntanawa hardly looked like a potential business partner for California’s oil industry when he addressed the crowd gathered last week in a Sacramento conference room. But under a plan state air regulators are considering, industries that emit greenhouse gas pollution in California could […]

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劳雷尔·罗森霍尔

• 5 月 4, 2016

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A ‘zero net energy’ vision for California homes doesn’t mean going off the grid

Regulators say the state building code will be the key to achieving the goal, at least in the short term.

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朱莉·卡特

• 4 月 30, 2016

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Buildings must improve their energy use; here’s what that means for you

The efficiency mandate, intended to reduce the need for carbon-spewing power plants, is part of California’s mission to address climate change.

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朱莉·卡特

• 4 月 30, 2016

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San Francisco’s ‘benchmarking’ was first in California; state will follow

SAN FRANCISCO—Barry Hooper’s co-workers can be forgiven if they try to avoid him in the office. No one wants to be fingered as an energy hog. Hooper manages San Francisco’s five-year-old building-efficiency ordinance, created to measure wasted energy in the city’s largest structures, give them a score the public can see and prod owners to […]

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朱莉·卡特

• 4 月 30, 2016

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Who uses California’s power?

Residential and commercial users consume most of California’s available power. Source: California Energy Commission

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CalMatters Staff

• 4 月 27, 2016