Ecotrust in the News
89.3 KPCC
May 21, 2009
by Molly Peterson
California's greenhouse gas emissions may be low because of energy efficiency
A congressional committee is considering wide-ranging legislation that would set new national limits on emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases. KPCC's Molly Peterson says a new report aims to identify how much greenhouse gas households in each state produce.
Molly Peterson: Economist Kristen Sheeran works for Ecotrust, an Oregon-based think tank that studies environmental issues. She says while Congress has been working on legislation to limit global warming, she's been looking over policy papers and attack ads that claim new laws to limit carbon pollution will kill the economy. So Sheeran started looking at where states get their energy, and how carbon-intense it is.
Kristen Sheeran: We tried to answer a very real applicable policy question that at this point has legislators stumped, and the question is, how differentially will impacts across the, be distributed?
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