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California Launches Landmark Cap-and-Trade Program with Auction of Greenhouse Gas Pollution Permits

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Posted Nov. 14, 2012

Interview with Sally Bingham, Episcopal priest, founder of Interfaith Power and Light, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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Under California's ground-breaking global warming legislation, Assembly Bill 32, carbon pollution allowances will be auctioned off for the first time on Nov. 14. The law requires the state's biggest power generators and industries to either reduce their greenhouse gas emissions or buy permits to pay for their pollution. Together, these sectors account for about 85 percent of California’s greenhouse-gas emissions, and the program’s goal is to reduce emissions 15 percent by 2020. Although several Northeastern states initiated a compact a few years ago called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI (Reggie), it applies only to pollution generated by electric utilities, whereas the California program is much broader. Six other states had originally planned to join California in a Western states initiative, but all have since dropped out.

AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, generated fierce opposition from polluting industries. The law was challenged by Proposition 23 on the November 2010 ballot, which sought to suspend AB 32 until state unemployment stayed below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters, which hasn't happened in 30 years. After Proposition 23 lost decisively, 62 to 38 percent, the California Air Resources Board has moved forward to implement the law that includes a carbon cap and trade system and other components. While opponents say AB 32 will cost jobs, supporters assert the law will create new jobs in the green economy.

Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Rev. Sally Bingham, an Episcopal priest who founded Interfaith Power and Light in 1997 as a religious response to climate change. In 2000 the name was changed to Interfaith Power and Light, with congregations of many faiths joining in. The group now has chapters in 40 states. Here, Rev. Bingham discusses why climate change is an issue of concern to faith communities, and the role Interfaith Power and Light played in the passage of AB 32.

SALLY BINGHAM: AB32 is particularly important to the faith community because we believe that we are the stewards of creation and we see climate change and too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as very detrimental to God's creation in that it affects all aspects of life, whether it's fires or droughts or severe storms like the one that was just experienced in the Northeast; where climate change doesn't cause those storms, it does cause them to be a great deal more severe. The periods of rain and the periods of drought and heat are more extreme now, and this is what scientists predicted 30 years ago, and now we're beginning to see it here. And we see AB32 as a beginning step. It's also particularly important because it's the only, if you will, global warming bill in America. And people from all over the country – probably all over the world – are watching to see, will it be successful, and will it accomplish all the things the writers of the bill hope that it will. I believe that it will; I believe it deserves a yeoman's opportunity to get started, and it will create jobs. It will put more money into research and development for renewable energy. And in the long run, it's going to help our health and our well-being as we move forward.

BETWEEN THE LINES: Can you say anything specific about how these different faith communities are engaging with the political process that led to passage of AB32?

SALLY BINGHAM: Well, before AB32 was even brought into law, Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar was the one who signed that bill, and I was lucky to be standing with him when he signed that bill in Sacramento. And he also did a signing here in San Francisco. The religious community was talking to legislators frequently and urgently about the fact that climate and the changing climate is a moral issue, because not addressing climate change is allowing for one group of people to be prosperous at the expense of others. And we see that as a moral issue, because the more greenhouse gases we put into the atmosphere, the more the extreme of the climate change happens. The people that suffer the most are the poor and the least able to mitigate and recover after disaster. The poor people are the ones that are affected the most and they have contributed the least to the problem. That's why we see it as such an important moral issue. So we worked on that premise for two or three years before AB32 was actually signed into law.

Now that we have the opportunity to auction off some of the credits – this is in the cap and trade aspect of the bill – we will see some funds being accumulated that can go back to those low-income communities. We can have some of that money go into research and developments of renewable energy, so all aspects of AB32 are important, and the auction is important because it allows for some funds to be developed to be used for those other issues that are also connected to clean air and clean water, to make sure those communities have the funds to do what they need to do to keep their air clean, and if it involves putting scrubbers on power plants, the money will go towards that, and it will help in terms of their ability to stay as healthy as everybody else is.

BETWEEN THE LINES: Rev. Sally Bingham, what you've been talking about is what many activists call environmental justice – that is, the fight to make sure that the poor and people of color have equal access to clean air, clean water, and healthy open spaces. Is there any other aspect of AB32 that relates to that?

SALLY BINGHAM: Well, with the clean fuel standards that California has implemented and which is also part of AB32, (it) will help in those low-income communities where they're often having to breathe diesel through traffic. And the cleaner the cars, the cleaner the air is, and that will help low-income communities as well to stay healthy.

For more information on Interfaith Power and Light’s unique approach to battling climate change, visit interfaithpowerandlight.org.

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