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California climate ambitions tested as new carbon credits weighed amid gas price spike
CALIFORNIA IS CONSIDERING handing oil refineries and other major polluters billions of dollars in free emission allowances just as the state says carbon reductions need to come faster than ever. In the last six months, two refineries have closed and gas prices ...
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CALIFORNIA IS CONSIDERING handing oil refineries and other major polluters billions of dollars in free emission allowances just as the state says carbon reductions need to come faster than ever. In the last six months, two refineries have closed and gas prices ...
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, California climate ambitions tested as new carbon credits weighed amid gas price spike, CALIFORNIA IS CONSIDERING handing oil refineries and other major polluters billions of dollars in free emission allowances just as the state says carbon reductions need to come faster than ever. In the last six months, two refineries have closed and gas prices have topped an average of $6 a gallon as the Iran-Israel war sent oil markets […] The post California climate ambitions tested as new carbon credits weighed amid gas price spike appeared first on Local News Matters .
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