Sprinting toward regulation of global warming-related emissions, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its proposed Scoping Plan ?for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions? in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on October 15. Required by California?s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), the Scoping Plan is designed to chart the course that California will follow for reducing its emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. CARB is scheduled to formally approve the Scoping Plan in December and will be holding a series of public hearings on the document in the weeks ahead.

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