Home to everything earthy, California has long led the way in environmental, conservation and recycling efforts for the United States. A high level of environmental consciousness has helped California pioneer ecological strategies now valued and tried colse to the world. With so many cars, California's auto recycling and salvage business may also in fact lead the country as well. Here's the most recent environmental and recycling news from the Golden State.
Southern California Recycles Waste water
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San Diego is in one of America's hottest and driest climes, a place subject to full, drought. Explosive people increase over recent decades has meant the city is facing serious water shortages. In an effort to avoid the worst, San Diego is pioneering the most recent generation of waste water treatment technologies. Water that goes down the drains (and indeed, down your toilet) leads to a state of the art facility where it is purified to the top level and then integrated with the city's water supply.
The image can be a bit shocking, and its one time epithet "toilet to tap" can turn one's stomach, but environmentalists and recycling advocates anywhere are taking a look at San Diego's program. As freshwater becomes increasingly scarce, recycling and treatment programs such as this are likely arrival to a neighborhood near you.
Pay As You Go guarnatee Could Keep Cars Off the Road
For once automakers and environmentalists are on the same page. A proposed guarnatee regulation convert would allow so-called pay as you drive auto guarnatee to California drivers. Similar pilot programs have gone transmit in more than 30 states and in three foreign countries, salvage policyholders money (more than 50% in some cases) while reducing drive time. The lower cost of getting into a vehicle appeals to automakers desperate for business, the reduced driving and air pollution is popular ,favorite by environmental activists.
Public comments are still open for the program, but with at least tenuous sustain from all stakeholders, the plan looks likely to go forward. Auto recyclers and salvagers in California know how many miles get driven, and how many accidents result. A microscopic convert such as this could make big differences in air quality, though time will tell if the hype materializes.
California Poised to Be Nation's First Carbon Taxing State
The California Air Resources Board will conclude next month either to fee a fee to the state's largest industrial polluters of carbon, the first state in the United States to consider such a move. The plan is part of Ab 32, a groundbreaking piece of environmental legislation that will make the state's worst producers of greenhouse gases-responsible for as much as 80-90% of the state's carbon output-pay for their pollution.
The bill has evoked controversy, and many environmental groups were disappointed that the board put off until July any final decisions about implementation. The fee will be used to pay for implementation of 2006' historic California Global Warming Solutions Act, and to repay the federal Epa for their loans in getting the agenda off the ground.
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