Full Title: Government Investment in a Clean Energy Future
Author(s): Farbes J, Kammen DM
Publisher(s): University of California Berkeley
Publication Date: December 1, 2010
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Description (excerpt):
With the passage of Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Nunez 2006), the state of California continued its long history of staying a step ahead of the federal government on environmental issues. California’s AB 32 legislation differs dramatically from the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) passed by the US House of Representatives (Waxman and Markey 2009) as well as other unsuccessful federal climate bills. AB 32 depends on state agencies to design and implement measures to combat climate, whereas ACESA largely contains legislatively-designed policies for federal agencies to carry out. Weighing in at a paltry thirteen pages compared to ACESA’s fourteen hunded plus, AB 32 sets a target fro 2020 emissions together with a timeline for California Air Resources Board (CARB) to complete its task of implementing measures to reach the target while also meeting key criteria.