Calif. air regulators establish program to promote forests, help polluters meet emission goals

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California air regulators Thursday expanded the state’s carbon-offset program to include forests across the country, creating the most far-reaching effort of its kind in the nation.

The program is voluntary and was endorsed unanimously by the California Air Resources Board.

Under it, land owners would receive so-called carbon credits [currently selling for 20 cents per ton] for planting more trees, better managing their forests or agreeing not to convert their property to another use that would require cutting down trees.

Cap & Trade Will Likely Not Pass This Year

INDIANA (Indiana's NewsCenter) - The Cap and Trade bill may not have such a bright future after all.

That according to Indiana's Senior Senator Richard Lugar.

Lugar made the comments Wednesday night while addressing an event sponsored by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.

He says the climate change legislation will likely not pass this year due to the health care reform debate.

Chasing a More Accurate Global Trend by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow | Climate Realists

The long term global temperature trends have been shown by numerous peer review papers to be exaggerated by 30%, 50% and in some cases much more by issues such as urbanization, land use changes, bad siting, bad instrumentation, and ocean measurement techniques that changed over time.