Both houses of the California legislature have passed a bill called SB-32 which would tell the California Air Resources Board "to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to 40% below the 1990 level by 2030." The state's Democratic governor has issued a statement indicating that he intends to sign it into law.
The Western States Petroleum Association and the California Manufacturers & Technology Association expressed their opposition to the bill.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @02:06PM
> So how about an additional tax or something on items produced by China?
People within california are like-minded enough to get a law like that passed (as evidenced by this law getting passed). But congress is composed of people from all over the country, half of which don't even believe carbon pollution is real. Consensus from them is a lot harder to achieve. If it were up to california they would impose a "carbon tariff." But states absolutely do not have the ability to create import tariffs. So, it isn't hypocrisy, its structural.