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Weintraub Tobin to Help Sponsor Western Dairy Air Quality Symposium

Posted in Agricultural Law, Air Quality, Dairies

Western States Dairy Producers Trade Association is sponsoring the 2013 Western Dairy Air Quality Symposium in Boise on April 16-17. The purpose of this symposium is to have a round- table exchange on the status of air quality research, demonstration projects, and pending regulations in the west, and to plan for coordination of research efforts… Continue Reading

California Cap and Trade Auction Results Released

Posted in Air Quality

California Air Resources Control Board released the Cap and Trade auction results. They can be found here:http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/auction/november_2012/auction1_results_2012q4nov.pdf. All of the 2013 allowances were purchased at a low price and only a small fraction of the 2015 allowances were purchased.  One would presume that many companies were not willing to bet that the Cap and Trade… Continue Reading

California Greenhouse Gas Auction is challenged by California Chamber of Commerce One Day Before the Auction

Posted in Air Quality, Environmental and Land Use

The California Chamber of Commerce on November 13 filed a suit in Sacramento Superior Court in order to challenge the auction of Green House Gas (“GHG”) allowances that were scheduled for auction on November 14.  This is the key section of the AB 32 cap and trade program that allocates allowances and then reduces those… Continue Reading