Posted on 12/24/2006 1:01:17 PM PST by calcowgirl
SACRAMENTO – Today, Linda Adams, Secretary for Environmental Protection, announced a 14-member Market Advisory Committee to support the implementation of the state’s first-in-the-nation comprehensive greenhouse gas reduction program. The Committee was formed according to the Governor’s Executive Order S-20-06. The Committee will make recommendations by June 30, 2007, to the state Air Resources Board on the design of a market-based compliance program.
“California is showing tremendous leadership on climate change. In my talks with national and international climate leaders, the progress we’re making here in California is providing hope to others in the fight against global warming,” said Adams. “The next step in our journey involves implementing additional reduction strategies to meet the greenhouse gas cap, including regulatory measures, best management practices, incentives and a market-based compliance mechanism.”
Committee members were recruited based on their public policy experience and professional or academic expertise in market-based compliance mechanisms such as trading, offsets, banking and auctioning of emission allowances. In addition, the members bring a diverse range of opinions to the discussion. The Committee is expected to draft a report of recommendations for the state Air Resources Board to assist California in developing a greenhouse gas emissions market system.
In addition to the Agency moving forward on market recommendations, the state Air Resources Board recently announced that a public workshop has been scheduled to begin collecting ideas for possible discrete early-action measures. According to the law, these emission reduction measures would be implemented earlier in the timeline to ensure that the state is doing everything possible to meet the emissions cap set forth in the California Global Warming Solutions Act.
“I’m encouraged by the progress California already has made to fight global warming. From aggressive energy efficiency programs, to pursuing alternative fuels like hydrogen and bioenergy, to adopting motor vehicle emission standards for cars, under Gov. Schwarzenegger’s leadership, California is already hard at work reducing greenhouse gases,” said Adams.
Attached is a list of Committee members. For more information on the upcoming public workshop to discuss possible early actions, go to http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cc.htm#jan22. For a link to the Governor’s Executive Order S-20-06, go to http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/executive-order/4484/.
The state’s landmark global warming bill, Assembly Bill 32 (Nuñez/Pavely), known as the California Global Warming Solutions Act, establishes a first-in-the-nation comprehensive program of regulatory and market mechanisms to achieve real, quantifiable, cost-effective reductions of greenhouse gases. It makes the Air Resources Board responsible for monitoring and reducing GHG emissions and continues the existing Climate Action Team to coordinate statewide efforts.
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Market Advisory Committee Members
Dale Bryk
Dale Bryk is Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a national, non-profit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. At the NRDC, Bryk leads the organization’s state climate policy work. Her expertise is in the area of state energy and climate policy, including utility regulation, energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, greenhouse gas emission registries and regulation, emissions trading, green building and smart growth. Bryk joined NRDC in 1997, prior to which she practiced corporate law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Since 2002, she has also taught at the Yale Law School Environmental Protection Clinic. Bryk has a JD from Harvard Law School, an MA in International Law and Policy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a BA from Colgate University.
Dallas Burtraw
Dallas Burtraw is Senior Fellow with Resources for the Future, a Washington D.C.-based environmental research organization. Burtraw’s research expertise is environmental regulation design and cost benefits analysis, with particular focus on the electric industry. Burtraw’s research portfolio includes analysis of alternative approaches to implementing emissions permit trading programs on power generators, cost-effectiveness of Oxides of Nitrogen trading in the US, and ecological improvements from reduced acidification in the Adirondacks. Burtraw also serves on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis and on the National Academies of Science Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. Burtraw was previously a Professional Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies. Burtraw has a PhD in Economics and an MA in Public Policy from the University of Michigan.
Eileen Claussen
Eileen Claussen is President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Claussen is former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. She served three years as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council. Prior to advising the President, Claussen was Director of Atmospheric Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Under her leadership, the US/EPA developed the acid rain program, negotiated the Clean Air Accord with Canada, and established the Energy Star program. She has received many prestigious awards including: Department of State’s Career Achievement Award, the Meritorious Executive Award for Sustained Superior Accomplishment, and the Fitzhugh Green Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Environmental Protection. At the conclusion of her government career, she served as the Timothy Atkeson Scholar in Residence at Yale University. She is a member of the Environmental Law Institute Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. Claussen has an MA from the University of Virginia and a BA from George Washington University.
Daniel J. Dudek
Daniel J. Dudek is the Chief Economist in the New York City Office for Environmental Defense, a leading national nonprofit organization. Dudek specializes in the reduction and control of atmospheric pollutants through environmental commodities market development. He led the team credited by President George H.W. Bush with breaking the logjam on acid rain reduction strategies, and helped develop the sulfur dioxide trading program. Dudek helped create tradable production entitlements for chlorofluorocarbons to comply with the Montreal Protocol. His other accomplishment including brokering the first interpollutant trade program, developing the first emission trade in Poland, facilitating the first international greenhouse gas trade involving options. He has partnered with British Petroleum to develop their internal GHG trading system, and is developing SO2 emissions trading in China. Dudek also serves as an international environmental policy advisor to Poland, the United Nations, Budapest, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, People's Republic of China, and other various public and private institutions. Dudek has served as an assistant professor of Resource Economics at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Paul Ezekiel
Paul Ezekiel is Managing Director for Credit Suisse where he runs the bank’s global carbon trading business, based in New York. In addition to developing the carbon strategy for the bank, he manages Credit Suisse’s relationships and investments in offset producers, leveraging the bank’s premier emerging market franchise. Ezekiel joined Credit Suisse from Antipodean Partners, a specialty merchant bank and advisory firm in the environmental and climate change industry, which he co-founded in 2002 and where he served as President. He was responsible for developing a number of innovative structures for carbon emissions producers, including pioneering securitizations of tradable greenhouse gas emissions credits. Prior to establishing Antipodean, Ezekiel was a Managing Director at SoundView Technology Group (formerly Wit Capital) where he was head of financial services investment banking and before that worked at Banc of America Securities LLC. Ezekiel has an MBA from Cornell University and is formerly a MD, specialized in Neurosurgery.
Lawrence H. Goulder, Vice Chair
Lawrence H. Goulder is the Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford. He has been a faculty member at Stanford since 1989. His research examines the environmental and economic impacts of U.S. and international environmental policies, including those that deal with climate change and pollution from power plants and automobiles. His work also explores the “sustainability” of consumption patterns in various countries. Goulder performs environmental policy analysis for various government agencies, business groups, and environmental organizations. At Stanford he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental economics and policy, and co-organizes a weekly seminar in public and environmental economics. Goulder has a BA in philosophy from Harvard College and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.
Winston Hickox, Chair
Winston Hickox is former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency. As Secretary of Cal/EPA, Hickox was instrumental in the enactment of legislation requiring new greenhouse gas emission standards for cars. He also established the Environmental Protection Indicators for California, and led the implementation of Environmental Justice legislation in California. Since July of 2004, Hickox has been employed by CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, as a Senior Portfolio Manager. He has assisted with the design and implementation of a series of Environmental Investment Initiatives, including investments in clean technology, and other investment initiatives focused on the impacts of climate change. Hickox currently serves on the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System Board, as well as the Boards of the following NGOs: the California League of Conservation Voters, Audubon California, and the Sustainable Conservation Boards. Hickox has a BS in Business Administration from Cal State University Sacramento, and an MBA from Golden Gate University.
Steven E. Koonin
Steven E. Koonin was a California Institute of Technology professor until 2004, when he left to become British Petroleum’s Chief Scientist. He is responsible for BP’s long range technology plans and activities, particularly those “beyond petroleum.” He directs BP’s major university research programs around the world and provides technical advice to BP’s senior executives on matters of group significance. Koonin is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. He has served on numerous advisory bodies for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy and its various national laboratories. Koonin has a BS in Physics from Caltech, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Franz T. Litz
Franz T. Litz is Climate Change Policy Coordinator for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, serving as the chief policy advisor on climate change issues. Litz served as New York’s principal representative to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an effort by eight Eastern states to implement the first flexible, market-based cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide in the United States. Litz is a member of the Advisory Board of The Climate Group, a worldwide non-profit organization dedicated to spotlighting positive action on climate change by businesses and governments. He is a participant in a number of ongoing climate change policy initiatives, including the Earth Institute’s Global Roundtable on Climate Change, and the Center for Clean Air Policy’s National Climate Change Dialogue. Recently, Litz was selected to study the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme in depth as part of the European Union Visitor’s Program. He is a graduate of Boston College Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, and a graduate of Union College.
Joe Nation
Joe Nation served three terms in the California State Assembly, representing Marin and southern Sonoma Counties. During his tenure, Nation focused on energy, education, health care, and the environment. He was the principal co-author of Assembly Bill 32 (Nuñez/Pavley), the Global Warming Solutions Act. He also is the author of AB 1229 (2005), which requires auto manufacturers to conspicuously disclose to consumers the greenhouse gas emissions of new automobiles and trucks. He now teaches economics and climate change at the University of San Francisco. Nation is a consultant to RAND, where he directs RAND California, RAND Texas, and RAND New York, which provide more than 300 online databases for users. Nation has a BA in Economics, German and French from the University of Colorado, and an MA in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. In 1985, he was one of twelve students nationwide to enroll at the RAND Graduate School, where he received a PhD in Public Policy Analysis. He later completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University.
Martin Nesbit
Martin Nesbit is Director of the National Climate Change Policy Division at Britain’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Division is responsible for emissions trading, climate change agreements, and coordination of the United Kingdom’s climate change program. In his earlier career, he has worked in Brussels twice, the first time working for the European Commissioner in charge of regional policy, and the second time as the UK’s representative, serving as lead negotiator on environmental legislation. Previous domestic policy posts have included housing policy, waste management, including implementation of the EU landfill directive, and more recently responsibility for UK policy on the rural development and agri-environmental parts of the European Common Agricultural Policy. He has a Diplome d’Administration from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in France.
Jonathan Pershing
Jonathan Pershing is Director of the Climate, Energy and Pollution Program at the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C. He works on domestic and international climate and energy policy, including emissions trading, energy technology, and the evolving architecture of international climate agreements. Pershing is actively involved in projects with individual states and the US federal government on climate change and energy policy, as well as governments in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Group of Eight, and major developing nations. He serves both on the Resources Panel of the Northeast States Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and as the facilitator of the RGGI negotiations, on the Advisory Board of the Oregon Climate Trust, and on the Chicago Climate Exchange. Pershing served for five years as the Head of the Energy and Environment Division at the International Energy Agency in Paris, responsible for emissions trading research and other energy related policy. Pershing served as lead U.S. negotiator for the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its 1997 Kyoto Protocol. He has a PhD in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Minnesota.
Nancy Sutley
Nancy Sutley is Deputy Mayor for Energy and Environment for the City of Los Angeles. She is also Mayor Villaraigosa’s appointment to the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. From 2003 to 2005, Sutley served on the California State Water Resources Control Board. The five-member, full-time board is responsible for protecting water quality and resources throughout California. Sutley also served as Governor Gray Davis’ Energy Advisor where she managed state and federal regulatory, legislative, financial and press matters, and served as the Deputy Secretary for Policy and Intergovernmental Relations within the California Environmental Protection Agency from 1999-2003. During President Clinton’s administration, Sutley was a Senior Policy Advisor to the Regional Administrator for EPA, Region 9 in San Francisco and a Special Assistant to the Administrator at the Federal EPA in Washington, DC where she helped develop the Acid Rain Program. She has degrees from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Cornell University.
Peter Zapfel
Peter Zapfel is the European Union Emission Trading System Coordinator for the European Commission. The EU Institution is responsible for design of the EU emissions trading scheme and ensuring its proper implementation across Europe. Zapfel is responsible for the economic assessment of climate policy, including the development and quantitative assessment of cost-effective strategies and instruments to implement the EU climate policy objectives. During his tenure with the European Commission, Zapfel has worked in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, the Directorate General for Environment, and has represented the Commission in United Nation’s climate negotiation sessions. Zapfel has been involved in the Commission’s work on emissions allowance trading since 1998, and has contributed to national allocation plans in the implementation of the Emission Allowance Trading Directive. Currently, Zapfel leads the Directorate General for Environment’s EU Emissions Trading System team. He has degrees from the University of Business and Economics in Vienna, Austria, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
A firm connection in global warmingWhen the Schwarzenegger administration this week announced the 14 members of the Market Advisory Committee, a new panel created to help the California Air Resources Board enact this year's Global Warming Solutions Act, there were a slew of details about the chairman:
Winston Hickox is former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency. As Secretary of Cal/EPA, Hickox was instrumental in the enactment of legislation requiring new greenhouse gas emission standards for cars. He also established ...One pertinent biographical detail, however, was left out: Hickox is a partner at California Strategies, the uber-influential government consulting, PR and lobbying firm founded by Bob White, the former chief of staff to Pete Wilson....Hickox said he was "not at all hesitant" to have California Strategies mentioned. He says he will be working on the firm's "existing book of business" and otherwise will concentrate on helping institutional investors learn from and replicate what California's public pension funds have done in terms of using their capital to address climate change issues.
Interestingly, California Strategies is in merger talks with another player in a major government endeavor: Smith, Watts & Co., whose partners D.J. Smith and Mark Watts are two of the biggest consultants and lobbyists on transportation issues in Sacramento. (The firm's former partner, Will Kempton, is director of Caltrans.) They helped design and get approved by voters this year's $20 billion transportation bond package. Now that it has passed, the state is going to have a huge influx of new money to be divvied up for roads, bridges, public transit systems and ports.
So with these two moves, California Strategies soon will include people with great connections and expertise concerning two of the biggest ventures the state of California is undertaking. We can already hear the clients queuing up at the door.
(The only people seriously stumping 'human caused' global warming are scam artists and crooked politicians looking to make money on it)
Get a load of this line-up of committee members. NRDC? Joe Nation? Oh, Joy!
Nice to know they're also squandering CalPERS funds for their folly. /s
P. T. Barnum, heads-up.
Gullible fools whose idiocy will cost everyone.
Back in prehistoric times, they would have just thrown a couple of morons in a volcano and that would have brought an end to this "global warming" nonsense. Now, everybody wants to get rich off of these freaky superstitions.
Not a single member with a real job: producing something of value to others.
Simply a legislated program of delusional busibodies saving everybody else from themselves.
Didn't Henry Ford, four generations ago, before the EPA and controlling twit think-tanks existed, institute the first recycling program with no buraucratic help whatsoever?
Garbage like this makes me happy I live in The people's republic of Michigan. I don't think our socialist gov would do this, atleast to factories.
And don't forget, people who "save the planet" are entitled to a large salary. I mean come on, this is work that only the wisdom of the "chosen few" can manage. You need to be born the the ability, you can't be taught. Its a gift from Mother Nature.
Eileen Claussen - Pew Center on Global Climate Change, CFR
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wow.. just wow.
the members bring a diverse range of opinions to the discussion.
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European included
Pew, CFR, United Nations, EU, Kyoto....
The new "leadership" for California. Everyone of them is a leftist piece of work.
Well of course! Do you think the coming California Schwarzenneger/Kennedy/Hollywood elitist class wants middle-class hoi polloi trashing up the state?
It's a nice place to live, as you say, so it's not fit for the "little people." It's clear the elites plan to solve freeway congestion and similar overpopulation problems by overtaxing and otherwise "encouraging" the non-rich to migrate to places with Winter.
Climate change legislation = less job-creating industry = equals fewer "little people." The elitists have already got theirs.
“The beauty of carbon trading, is that it takes a primal human impulse — greed — and redirects it
toward saving the planet rather than destroying it.”--Dan Dudek, chief economist at Environmental Defense,
as quoted in the NYT, July 30, 2006
I wonder when the Air Resources Board will prohibit people from using their fireplaces altogether?
The new "leadership" for California. Everyone of them is a leftist piece of work.
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and "popularly" elected, to boot. what a shame.. and a sham.
I'm surprised they haven't done it yet, but they are getting close. The following is from a fact sheet on SB 656, passed in 2003-04.
http://www.arb.ca.gov/pm/pmmeasures/sb656_fact_sheet.doc
PM [Particulate Matter] Problem Type:
Smoke from Wood-Burning Fireplaces and Heaters Establish a public awareness program;
Measures:
• Set a voluntary curtailment during periods with predicted high PM levels (or update to mandatory);
• Require all woodstoves and fireplace inserts installed be U.S. EPA certified or equivalent;
• Limit number of wood-burning fireplaces and heaters in new developments;
• Replace non-certified units upon property sale;
• Control wood moisture content;
• Prohibit burning of materials not intended for use in wood-burning appliance.
Actually, I was referring to these unelected committee appointees who will rule the state via CARB.
The elected ones, singing the same tunes, are just as bad, if not worse.
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