Climate Change & Energy

Bay Area air district gives staff perk to drive

07/05/2011
By Alison Hawkes

The "Spare the Air Day" agency gives executive staff as much as $675 monthly for a car to drive around the Bay Area.
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Tags: air district, baaqmd, , public transit, spare the air
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PG&E plans for ‘smart grid’

07/01/2011
By Alison Hawkes

Northern California's largest utility submitted $2 billion plans outlining a 20-year roll out of smart grid technologies.
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Tags: , california public utilities commission, , renewable energy,
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Calif. carbon trading to proceed

06/30/2011
By Alison Hawkes

A lawsuit by environmental justice advocates still hangs over California's cap-and-trade program, but a court says it can proceed.
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Tags: , california air resources board, cap and trade, environmental justice
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California expands solar power tax incentives

06/29/2011
By Alison Hawkes

Freestanding structures and sale-leaseback arrangements will pass less in taxes for the solar power they install.
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Marin landowners wary of development restrictions for sea level rise

06/28/2011
By Alison Hawkes

Shoreline landowners disapprove of restrictions aimed at protecting 100-foot from shoreline from the encroaching sea.
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Tags: bcdc, , , san francisco bay conservation and development commission,
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Cars 2 takes on big oil vs. alternative fuel

06/23/2011
By Alison Hawkes

What does a villain look like in a Pixar movie? The newest release -- Cars 2 -- hits theaters with bad guys discrediting alternative fuel.
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Tags: alternative energy
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California mandates green parking spaces

06/22/2011
By Alison Hawkes

Drivers of fuel efficient vehicles are about to get first class parking. California is mandating "green parking spots" and bike racks.
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Tags: bicycles, , , parking
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Napa Valley wines impacted by climate change

06/21/2011
By Alison Hawkes

A chilled California chardonnay may never taste as sweet as climate change continues to take its toll. Napa vintners complete four-year scientific study of rising temperatures.
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Tags: , farming, , wines
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California ships solar-processed rice to Japan

06/21/2011
By Alison Hawkes

Want some sunshine with that sushi? A California farm is the first to produce 100 percent solar processed food for export.
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Tags: , farming, go solar campaign,
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PG&E saves already saved Menodocino forests

06/17/2011
By Alison Hawkes

Do-gooders of PG&E’s ClimateSmart program have been snookered into paying twice for the same stretch of  preserved Mendocino forest. The utility’s program allows customers to voluntarily allow a surcharge on their power use to be put towards carbon offset programs. The timber-saving programs, which is mentioned on PG&E’s website, make no mention of the...
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Tags: , forest preservation, mendocino,
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