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Environmental

Dec. 11, 2012

Court appears to favor state effort at fighting climate change

A San Francisco judge appeared inclined to keep the state's pioneering carbon trading program on track Friday despite an effort by environmentalists to invalidate a key cost-cutting measure in the scheme.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge appeared inclined to keep the state's pioneering carbon trading program on track Friday despite an effort by environmentalists to invalidate a key cost-cutting measure in the plan. Superior Court Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith heard arguments from the nonprofit Citizens Climate Lobby that, by using so-called carbon offsets, the California Air Resources Board - or CARB - risks...

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