Oops! Forgot about this over the weekend: which magazines, you ask? The Atlantic and The New Republic, actually. (Preaching to the converted?)
Bradford Plumer makes the point that state-level climate policy matters in The New Republic:
Renewable standards, efficiency laws, a utility-only carbon-trade system that’s currently operating in the Northeast… And looking ahead, a number of Western states are watching California closely and mulling the possibility of linking up with its cap-and-trade system down the road. Assuming that Congress doesn’t pass its own climate bill, then these states are going to shoulder a good deal of the burden in cutting carbon emissions.
Nicole Allan in The Atlantic repeats the economic-apocalypse claims of Proposition 23 proponents:
Anita Mangels, the campaign’s communications director, stressed that there’s more to Schwarzenegger’s prized AB 32 than just cap-and-trade. “It has a low carbon fuel standard, which would increase gas diesel costs by $4 billion a year,” she said. “Its renewable electricity standard would cause electricity rates to rise. It has green building standards that would add $50,000 to the cost of a home.”
I’m looking forward to getting cites for the first and third assertions by Mangels – particularly curious about the 50Gs for the cost of a home. Seems, for lack of a better word, random. I’ll present it when I have it.
