AB32, the “Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006″ is a California law that mandates the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Though it arguably has spurred innovation in the clean tech sector, critics suggest it has held back job growth in traditional manufacturing, hampering economic recovery. Now, an oil industry funded effort to repeal AB32 is in the works. This page is a collection of our latest stories on the subject.
A report from California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office concludes that implementation of Assembly Bill 32, or AB32, would result in near-term job losses. But Governor Schwarzenegger isn’t buying it. AB32, or the Global Warming Solutions Act, was passed in 2006 and calls for reducing California’s emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020. But an [...]
In 2006, the State of California passed a landmark piece of legislation known as AB32. The bill requires California to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020. With California’s prominence as a major economy in its own right, the bill has had national and international repercussions and attention. Now, one opposition group [...]
By: Cynthia Verdugo-Peralta When it comes to achieving sustained economic recovery in California, it seems that some individuals, who presently have the bully pulpit, are asking all the wrong questions—and not surprisingly, coming up with all the wrong answers. They wonder–“What can we do to ‘protect’ California’s economy from AB32 (the state’s landmark energy security [...]
The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report today (full disclosure- they pay my rent, which is why I got a jump on writing about this great report) outlining the impact of California’s groundbreaking global warming legislation on small businesses. The long and the short of it? No big changes! The impact to small businesses [...]
Just before the California legislative season ended in mid-September, lawmakers passed two bills that would require 33 percent of California’s energy to be generated from renewable resources by 2020—a more aggressive goal than what the three-year old AB32 (California’s Global Warming Solutions Act) had set and the most aggressive renewable energy requirement in the nation.
Editor’s note: The following was published earlier on CleanTechnica by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in response to Meg Whitman’s Op-Ed suggesting that California Governor Schwarzenegger put “a moratorium on most AB32-related rules. And if he does not, [she] will issue that order on [her] first day as governor.” CleanTechnica is doing its best to [...]
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