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Impact - December 2008
Submitted on 12.31.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - December 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Why Water Markets Should be Part of the “Vision” for the Delta, and All of California
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 12.17.2008
SACRAMENTO – Before the end of 2008, the Delta Vision Committee will send Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger a Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), “one of the most ambitious infrastructure and habitat restoration projects ever proposed in America,” according to news reports, to restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a prime source of drinking water and irrigation for two-thirds of Californians.
Will the EPA Have a Cow?
Submitted by Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 12.16.2008
In response to an April, 2007, Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently ended the public comment period on “proposed rulemaking” for regulating greenhouse gases. Buried within the proposal is a controversial measure for regulating methane from agricultural and livestock operations. While EPA bosses claim they do not intend to implement a “cow tax,” dairy and livestock producers are understandably nervous.
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