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Environmental

May 25, 2011

State Must Revisit Cap-and-Trade Plan

Finding that it didn't follow the law, a San Francisco County Superior Court judge has ordered a state environmental agency to halt its plan for using cap-and-trade to meet emissions goals.


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - A state environmental agency has 15 months to bring its plan for cutting California's greenhouse emissions into compliance with the law.


In a much-anticipated decision Friday, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith ordered the California Air Resources Board to halt the cap-and-trade program it planned to use to help the state create a road map for meeting th...

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