California Dems Seek To Expedite Green Energy Efforts

In an effort to speed California's compliance with aggressive alternative energy mandate set foth in AB32, California State Senate President pro Tem Don Perata and a coalition of Senate Democrats announced yesterday the introduction of a sweeping eight-bill package that aims to improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California.

As reported in California Progress Report:

"Perata complained that: "The implementation of Assembly Bill 32 is getting bogged down in arcane discussions over intercontinental trading schemes,'carbon markets' and free 'credits'. That may work for Wall Street traders andEnron economists, but it doesn't work for Californians."

The California Progress Report has a complete discription of the bills in the legislative package.

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