http://policyinmotion.com/2010/07/ee-news-senate-dems-leave-cap-and-trade-on-the-cutting-room-floor/ Growing Beautiful Communities Thu, 10 May 2012 16:06:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://policyinmotion.com/2010/07/ee-news-senate-dems-leave-cap-and-trade-on-the-cutting-room-floor/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Policy in Motion » “SB 375 Implementation and CEQA” — Policy in Motion / Fehr & Peers Presentation on Wed July 28th in Sacramento Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:10:01 +0000 http://policyinmotion.com/?p=307#comment-50 [...] Conceding they can’t find enough votes for the measure, yesterday Senate Democrats abandoned efforts to put together comprehensive climate change legislation that would seek to limit greenhouse gas emissions.  Here in the State of California’s maze of political and financial issues, the death of a federal climate bill certainly does not help our efforts to engage the public and promote change.  However, we should remember that it was the LACK of federal direction on climate change reform over the past decade that led California and 37 other states to develop Climate Action Plans (see Journalists Mourn the Death of the Federal Climate Bill) [...] [...] Conceding they can’t find enough votes for the measure, yesterday Senate Democrats abandoned efforts to put together comprehensive climate change legislation that would seek to limit greenhouse gas emissions.  Here in the State of California’s maze of political and financial issues, the death of a federal climate bill certainly does not help our efforts to engage the public and promote change.  However, we should remember that it was the LACK of federal direction on climate change reform over the past decade that led California and 37 other states to develop Climate Action Plans (see Journalists Mourn the Death of the Federal Climate Bill) [...]

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