Businesses attack California's cap-and-trade auction - Business - The Sacramento Bee

Just weeks before California embarks on a historic effort to reduce greenhouse gases, regulators and business executives are at war over whether it will work.

The rift was on full display Thursday. Dozens of factory managers, refinery workers and others descended on a California Air Resources Board meeting in Sacramento to demand changes in the state's cap-and-trade carbon market.

They said the market, which kicks off Nov. 14, will impose a $1 billion-plus annual tax that will curb economic growth and chase companies out of the state.

"What we're concerned about is keeping the jobs," said Lisa Bowman, an employee at a Phillips 66 refinery near Los Angeles.

UPS Makes No Left Turns In Quest to Deliver Sustainability; Q&A - Bloomberg

Scott Wicker, chief sustainability officer for UPS, said aviation biofuel is currently about seven times the cost of regular jet fuel...The cost of an alternative fuel vehicle is often two to three times the cost of a diesel or gas counterpart, and the infrastructure is often not there.

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Now that UKIP officially rejects a scientific approach to climate change, will it also endorse homeopathy, astrology, etc?

UKIP's New Energy Policy seeks lower energy prices, rejects wind power as expensive and inefficient. | PoliticsHome | Press Release | PoliticsHome

It argues that the theory of man-made climate change is unproven and implausible, and that even if the theory were valid, the costs of the Climate Change Act and other measures designed to reduce climate change will greatly exceed any foreseeable benefits.