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Gov. Jerry Brown invites Heidi Harmon to Global Climate Action Summit

Written on 29 Aug, 2018 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

California Gov. Jerry Brown has invited San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon to the Global Climate Action Summit, an event that will take place next month in San Francisco and aims to “decarbonize the world.” [Cal Coast Times] Harmon posted... (Continue reading)

Reduce global warming, plant a tree

Written on 4 Sep, 2016 in Featured, Opinion | 29 comments

OPINION by ALLAN COOPER In urban “heat islands,” vast stretches of asphalt magnify and reflect sun, sending CO2 directly skyward and creating “dead zones” below. Adding street trees can actually lower summer temperatures through evaporative cooling. A tree forms an oasis... (Continue reading)

California Democrats trying to slow impact of cap and trade

Written on 14 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 32 comments

Citing concern over rising gas prices, a group of Democratic California lawmakers are pushing a bill that would delay requiring oil refineries to buy carbon credits under the state’s cap and trade system. [LA Times] California’s cap and trade system,... (Continue reading)

Vandenberg launches carbon dioxide measuring satellite

Written on 2 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

An unmanned rocket carrying a satellite to study carbon dioxide was successfully launched early Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base. At a cost of $468 million, the mission is to collect global measurements of carbon dioxide levels in the... (Continue reading)

It’s a fee: California cap and trade passes legal challenge

Written on 15 Nov, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

California’s one-year-old system of auctioning off the right to emit carbon survived a pair of legal challenges this week. [SacramentoBee] Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley rejected lawsuits filed over California’s cap and trade law, AB 32, by the California... (Continue reading)