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Environmental

Apr. 13, 2007

Cooling California

Focus Column - By Carol Rene Brophy - Whether California's recent raft of climate change legislation will preserve the ice caps remains to be seen, but the new laws will transform the state's business and legal landscape immediately.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Carol Rene Brophy
     
      In 2006, the California Legislature passed a landmark global warming bill, AB 32, which will affect every Californian and every company doing business in the state. The bill not only sets emissions caps but also will roll back certain emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The reduction will be effected through a statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions that wil...

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