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$6 gas and refinery fears collide with California’s climate ambitions
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 […]
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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 have topped an average of $6 a gallon as the Iran-Israel war sent […]
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According to CalMatters’s linked item, $6 gas and refinery fears collide with California’s climate ambitions, 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 […]
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