Posts Tagged ‘Mary Nichols’CARB chair plugs electric carsWednesday, April 17th, 2013 April 17, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Mary Nichols was in Detroit this week for the Society of Automotive Engineers annual World Congress. The chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board told attendees that her agency wants to have better relations with the auto industry. “If we can colla... Employers and taxpayers ask Gov. Brown to halt cap and tradeFriday, March 15th, 2013 March 15, 2013 By Katy Grimes A group of employers and taxpayers have sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown asking that he halt cap and trade "and policies to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions." Cap and trade is the state's fledgling system of trading carbon credits to reduce greenhou... CARB honcho Mary Nichols makes power grabTuesday, February 5th, 2013Feb. 5, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- What do the California Air Resources Board, the Transit Authority, the Highway Patrol, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Bar Pilots have in common? More than you would think. Because all vehicles, railroad... Edison bailed out CA Cap & Trade auctionWednesday, January 9th, 2013Jan. 9, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The facts slowing coming out about the state’s first Cap and Trade auction seriously question whether the system is already being gamed by government, together with electric utilities. Edison International made an announcement on Dec. 20, 2012: At Californi... Tran scandal could keep air board chief from EPA postSunday, December 30th, 2012 Dec. 30, 2012 By Chris Reed As soon as I heard EPA chief Lisa Jackson was leaving, I took to Twitter to predict state air board chair Mary Nichols would be considered a hot candidate for the job, as she was in 2008. When the San Francisco Chronicle got around to this angle Saturday, I expected... CARB: The Gremlin in California’s garageTuesday, December 11th, 2012 Dec. 11, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board’s first cap and trade auction in November is yet more proof that CARB is responsible for making people cough, snort and wheeze in California. While trying to convince everyone that the carbon credit auction was a success, CARB o... Fossil-fuel-phobic Brown, Nichols pine for world that will never beWednesday, November 21st, 2012Nov. 21 By Chris Reed The California media's never-is-heard-a-discouraging word coverage of AB 32 and the recent cap-and-trade auction continues. But what's astounding is that just a week ago, the International Energy Association declared that fracking had the U.S. on track to be the world's lar... CARB scandal also shames California mediaMonday, November 5th, 2012 Nov. 5, 2012 By Chris Reed It was four years ago yesterday that the California Air Resources Board sent out a letter that marked the beginning of an amazingly juicy and revealing scandal that the Los Angeles Times and San Jose Mercury-News chose to ignore -- a scandal that the S... Revolt stirs against ‘regulation without representation’Thursday, November 1st, 2012Nov. 1, 2012 By Warren Duffy America's forefathers rebelled in 1776 against "taxation without representation." Who now is willing to step up and stop “regulation without representation”? On November 14, 2012, eight days after the election, the California Air Resources Board will launch... Cap and Trade manipulation leads to WCI Inc.Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 Oct. 23, 2012 By Warren Duffy Cap and Trade is coming -- good and hard. So far, numerous pleas to Gov. Jerry Brown, California Air Resources Director Mary Nichols and the California Legislature to delay the start of the first Cap and Trade carbon credit auction have fallen on deaf ears. Followin... |