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In this 1988 Presidential campaign, George Bush promised to counter the greenhouse effect with a “White House effect” initiated by his new Administration. Nothing discernable as such has emerged in the ensuing two years, however; those concerned about greenhouse gas emissions have had much greater success in eliciting a “Statehouse Effect”.
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D. Lashof & E. Washburn, The Statehouse Effect: State Policies to Cool the Greenhouse (Natural Resources Defence Council, Washington, DC: July (1990) (includes extensive tables on carbon dioxide emissions by states and nations, both aggregate and per capita).
C. Calwell et al, Clearing the Air: The Dollars and Sense of Proposition 128’s Atmospheric Protection Provisions (Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA: September 1990) (analysis of options for reducing California’s net carbon dioxide emissions by 20–40%).
California Senate Bill No. 1905, introduced February 6, 1990 (“Drive Plus” legislation establishing revenue-neutral taxes and rebates keyed to emissions of hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, particulates and carbon dioxide from automobiles, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty trucks).
California Assembly Bill No. 3995, introduced March 2, 1990 (legislation establishing statewide goals for utility- financed conservation and requiring incorporation of environmental costs in cost-effectiveness evaluations of utilities’ energy-resource options, including conservation).
California Public Utilities Commission, Decision No. 90–08–068 (August 29, 1990) (order approving expansion of California’s utility-financed conservation programs for electricity and natural gas, and linking utilities’ profits in part to the success of those programs).
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Cavanagh, R.C. (1991). State Regulatory Responses To The Threat Of Global Warming. In: Hohmeyer, O., Ottinger, R.L. (eds) External Environmental Costs of Electric Power. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76712-8_27
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