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SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board today announced the appointment of seven new members to its Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC). The committee is comprised of representatives from California communities most heavily impacted by air pollution, including those communities with minority or low-income populations.
The newly-appointed representatives include:
Dillon Delvo, Little Manila Rising
Catherine Garoupa White, Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
Thomas Helme, Valley Improvement Projects
Neena Mohan, California Environmental Justice Alliance
Sharifa Taylor, Communities for a Better Environment
Paulina Torres, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
“I look forward to the productive engagement of the new and former members of the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee in the Scoping Plan process,” said Hector De La Torre, Assembly-appointed Boardmember for Environmental Justice. “They will bring important perspectives and recommen
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States are pricing carbon. Washington hasn t followed their lead.
Even the president s ambitious calls to transition to clean energy and fight climate change omit any mention of putting a price on carbon dioxide.
In this June 3, 2017 file photo, the coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nation s top carbon dioxide emitters, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga. | Branden Camp/AP Photo
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Support for putting a price on carbon dioxide pollution is steadily spreading from environmental advocates who have long promoted it and the states already reaping billions of dollars from the idea to the business groups and free-market economists who see it as one of the most cost-effective ways to confront climate change.
Greens: Divided on ‘clean’ energy? Or closer than they appear?
Several media outlets over the past week or so have run stories about environmental groups setting up a “circular firing squad” because more than 600 such organizations sent a letter to Congress opposing the clean electricity standard that may become a centerpiece of Democrats’ climate and infrastructure package. The standard would likely require that 80% of U.S. electricity be generated by “clean” sources (meaning those that do not release significant greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere) by 2030, and 100% by 2035.
The issue in contention: whether certain technologies like fossil fuels that capture their carbon emissions, nuclear, and biomass power should be considered sufficiently “clean,” or whether they should be eliminated from the American power generation mix for the sake of environmental justice. This potential infighting has triggered flashbacks among many advocates to their last sho
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