Green Power is All the Rage
Gov. Schwarzenegger issued an executive order - California to have 1/3rd of it's power generated by renewable energy by 2020.
Sidestepping suggestions from the Legislature, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will issue an executive order that instructs the California Air Resources Control Board to design regulations for how utilities can meet a goal that one-third of the state’s power be generated by renewable energy by 2020. While the 33% green energy goal is already ambitious, there’s also a debate about the job-creating possibilities of generating renewable energy, which is part of the motivation for the Governor going at it alone. Can California meet that goal in 10 years, and will it be good for our economy?
Dan Pellissier, deputy cabinet secretary for energy policy in Gov. Schwarzenegger’s administration
Sen. Joe Simitian, D-11th District (Santa Cruz, Palo Alto); author of SB 14, “33% Renewable Energy by 2020
Robert Pollin, professor of economics & founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Daniel Kammen, professor in the energy & resources group; director of UC Berkeley’s Renewable & Appropriate Energy Laboratory
- Patt Morrison for September 16, 2009
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Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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