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California Air Resources Board asked to ease cap-and trade program - San Jose Mercury News

SACRAMENTO -- Dozens of people, some wearing red "Save Our Jobs" T-shirts, packed a public meeting Thursday to testify that a key component of California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law will impose enormous costs on them and consumers.
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Supporters of the auctioning of allowances say making all of them free, as the industries want, would nullify the point of the program: to put a price on carbon.

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Climate [hoax] funding for China raises questions

The European Commission is giving tens of millions in aid to China to help the world's second biggest economy combat climate change, a move critics questioned at a time when most European Union member states are imposing budget cuts.
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The huge growth in Chinese exports has allowed Beijing to amass the biggest foreign exchange reserves in the world.

Its coffers now hold $3.2 trillion - a sum 33 per cent larger than the entire British economy.

Given that China commands such immense financial resources of its own, critics questioned whether the country should receive aid from the EU.
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He added that it was "typical" of the commission. "Climate change is a trendy subject so they'd give money to anything to do with it," he said.
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Catherine Ray, a spokesman for the development commissioner, said that helping China to fight climate change was "definitely in the interest of EU - and UK - citizens as much as China's." The EU will stop giving aid to China in 2013, she added.

Global Warming Victims in Alaska Lose Lawsuit Over Shrinking Sea Ice

U.S. District Judge Philip Pro, sitting on the panel by designation from Nevada, highlighted the lack of standing in a concurring opinion.

"Kivalina has not met the burden of alleging facts showing Kivalina plausibly can trace their injuries to appellees," Pro wrote.

"By Kivalina's own factual allegations, global warming has been occurring for hundreds of years and is the result of a vast multitude of emitters worldwide whose emissions mix quickly, stay in the atmosphere for centuries, and, as a result, are undifferentiated in the global atmosphere. Further, Kivalina's allegations of their injury and traceability to appellees' activities is not bounded in time. Kivalina does not identify when their injury occurred nor tie it to appellees' activities within this vast time frame. Kivalina nevertheless seeks to hold these particular appellees, out of all the greenhouse gas emitters who ever have emitted greenhouse gases over hundreds of years, liable for their injuries."

"It is one thing to hold that a state has standing to pursue a statutory procedural right granted to it by Congress in the CAA to challenge the EPA's failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions which incrementally may contribute to future global warming," he added. "It is quite another to hold that a private party has standing to pick and choose amongst all the greenhouse gas emitters throughout history to hold liable for millions of dollars in damages."