Featured in Testing the waters – 07-2011

Assembly Bill 32

California: What does California’s climate plan mean for photovoltaics? At a time when the U.S. seems far from a national strategy to promote renewable energy, with Congress holding hearings on the supposed flaws of global-warming science, California is moving forward alone.

In 2006, the state passed a new law, Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), which commits the state to cutting its greenhouse-gas emissions back to the 1990 level by 2020. AB 32 has been through a lot in the last few months. Last November, voters rejected a ballot measure that would effectively have blocked the law’s …

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