Subject: Has the U.S. Turned the Corner on Carbon Pollution? ... and other news from Dan Lashof, NextGen Climate America
From: Daniel Lashof <[email-masked]>
To: Lauren Terrazas <[email-masked]>
Cc: Daniel Lashof <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:17:40 +0000

This week I compare the growth in clean energy and the decline in carbon pollution that has occurred since 2007 to the "business-as-usual" forecast made at that time. Spoiler alert:  The forecast was wrong.

https://nextgenamerica.org/clean-energy/has-the-u-s-turned-the-corner-on-carbon-pollution/

In other news this week, California State Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de Leon released a package of climate and clean energy bills this week to continue California's climate leadership and meet the goals that Governor Brown laid out in his inaugural address.  Information, including a statement from Tom Steyer, is available on the Senate's web site here:

http://focus.senate.ca.gov/climate

Also this week, AEE released an important study by the Brattle Group which shows that we can have clean power and reliability too:

http://info.aee.net/brattle-reliability-report

And in case you missed it, Dave Roberts at Grist has two new posts on the Clean Power Plan which include shout outs to NextGen Climate America's Dave Weiskopf:
http://grist.org/climate-energy/obamas-carbon-rule-hangs-on-this-one-legal-question/
http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-fight-over-obamas-clean-power-plan-heats-up-in-the-states/

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