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Environmental

Jan. 14, 2009

BERG: Lawyers Hope New Green Efforts Yield Gold

California has a head start on clean technology development because of its ground-breaking 2006 law, AB 32, a comprehensive program of regulatory and market mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gases. Now, with President-elect Barack Obama putting alternative energies at the heart of his effort to reverse the nation's economic blues, lawyers here say the green economy has gone from granola to milk and honey.

The green economy has gone from granola to milk and honey.

That's how Cara Horowitz, executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA Law School, describes it.

"It's gone from the solution to the climate change problem to the solution to the economic crisis," Horowitz said.

Horowitz, a former lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, is one of many lawyers around the state who have been playing key roles as t...

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