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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 10:58 AM Apr 2013

Cap-and-trade programs in California and Quebec to merge. "le rechauffement climatique."

California's air quality officials soon may be adding a new phrase to their bureaucratic vocabulary: "le rechauffement climatique." That's French for global warming.

The California Air Resources Board on Friday linked its program for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and curbing climate change with one in the French-speaking, Canadian province of Quebec. The merger starts Jan. 1.

On April 8, Gov. Jerry Brown certified the two cap-and-trade systems as compatible. As a result, Quebec's permits that let polluters emit carbon dioxide can be purchased and used by California oil refineries, food processors, cement plants and other facilities. And California-issued pollution permits will be valid in Quebec.

California Chamber of Commerce has released its annual list of "job killer" bills, a potent tool it uses at the Capitol to fight what it considers anti-business legislation, including California's cap-and-trade program. ... Of course, the chamber's job killers are viewed very differently by labor unions, environmentalists and consumer advocates.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-capitol-business-beat-20130422,0,1672943.story

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