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California Likely to Impose Drastic Carbon Dioxide Restrictions

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday August 31 2016, @05:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the tonight-they're-going-to-pollute-like-its-1999 dept.

butthurt writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:19PM (#395723)

    Ok, so California is taking some responsibility by limiting the CO2 they put directly in the air. Great.

    But the last time I checked, China was also a major polluter, dumping CO2 and other stuff in to the the air everyone else has to live with, largely on behalf of all the crap we buy from them.

    So how about an additional tax or something on items produced by China?

    Yea, I thought not.

    Yes, China is the largest polluter in the world. However, their population is something like 3-4x that of the US. If you want to judge by that standard, how long until the US gets to Liechtenstein's (population approximately 40,000) pollution?

    China has a huge pollution problem, but before complaining about that splinter, the US really ought to remove the log from its own eyes... you know, like California is trying to take one step towards doing here.