California's Air Board Sets Out To Destroy The State's Economy; UPDATE: Hot Air Links To This
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Just what California’s economy needs, more ridiculous regulation, regulation that will raise the costs of doing business in the state. From the Los Angeles Times:
California regulators Thursday are expected to adopt the nation’s most comprehensive carbon trading regime, creating a market-based way to lower greenhouse gas emissions at a time when similar efforts have stalled in Congress.
The program is the centerpiece of the state’s 2006 global warming law, which aims to slash carbon dioxide and other planet-heating pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. That would amount to a 15% cut from today’s level.
The cap-and-trade system “will help drive innovation, create more green jobs and clean up our air and environment,” said California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary D. Nichols, adding that it “provides flexibility” to industry and takes “into consideration the current economic climate.”
Carbon dioxide emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels, are trapping heat in Earth’s atmosphere, spurring changes in the climate. Scientists say California has begun to experience the effects, with hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and the melting of the Sierra snowpack, which provides fresh water for cities and farms.
Under the state’s cap-and-trade plan, emissions from the 600 biggest industrial facilities, including cement manufacturers, electrical plants and oil refineries, would be capped in 2012, with that limit gradually decreasing over eight years in an effort to encourage energy efficiency and renewable sources of power.
Companies would be granted “allowances” for each metric ton of greenhouse gas they emit, and they could trade unused allowances among themselves to cut costs.
California’s climate regulations already include rules to increase the fuel efficiency of cars, cut the energy intensity of gasoline and require that a third of the state’s electricity come from solar, wind and other renewable sources…
Disaster looms for California’s economy as long as Liberals are controlling the regulatory agencies and the state’s government. The record breaking exodus of companies out of California will continue. Remember as well that companies are downsizing their “green jobs” because there is not enough demand to keep people working in that line of work.
UPDATE:
Thanks to Hot Air for using my tip.
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