Environment committee  We haven't seen that yet in this presidential election. However, certainly the last time a new president was elected, George Bush had made a campaign promise to deal with carbon dioxide emissions from utilities, from electric generators, and then abandoned that upon coming into o

Environment committee  I'm not really familiar with that agreement. Was it the agreement with the New England states and the Canadian provinces as part of the discussions on RGGI?

Environment committee  I think there's a possibility of a bottom-up approach, whereby you have many of the states and regions, not just in the northeast but also, as I said in my testimony, in the west and in the mid-west, including Canada, that could talk to each other and link trading programs. And t

Environment committee  It's certainly an issue that comes up in discussions among the members of the United States Climate Action Partnership. Unfortunately, it's an issue that gets more and more difficult to deal with as we have more delay at the federal level and as more states come online with their

Environment committee  Thank you very much. I'll try my best. First of all, I'd like to say that I think regardless of whether we see a Democratic or a Republican president, given that the two major candidates of each party--Obama and Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Party, and McCain and Huckabee, s

Environment committee  Sure. Thank you for inviting me to speak to your panel today. My name is Vicki Arroyo, and I'm director of policy analysis for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization working to

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I confess to not understanding the comments with respect to emissions trading in California. Clearly there was just an announcement yesterday of a five-state initiative in that regard, so I think the issue of emissions trading is clearly one Governor Schwarzenegger is moving forw

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you for the question. There's a lot of interest in offsets, as I mentioned earlier, as a cost containment mechanism. I'm looking at some in front of me, and many of them, such as the Bingaman bill, the bill from Senators Feinstein and Carper--which is more focused on the u

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Many of them also support the idea of the U.S.'s re-engaging in a post-Kyoto timeframe. We see that we need federal mandatory policy here. We need the U.S. to step up and do something credible and meaningful, and then hopefully that will be a prelude to rejoining what happens aft

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Hi. Thank you for inviting me to speak to your panel today. I appreciate your flexibility in rescheduling my visit, due to my mother's medical emergency, and I'm grateful for the opportunity. My name is Vicki Arroyo and I'm director of policy analysis with the PEW Center on Glob