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California: SB 144 Passage Improves Outlook for CA Forests and Climate?

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Yesterday the California Senate passed the Climate Change and Forest Conversion Act of 2009.
Titled Senate Bill 144, the legislation calls on state agencies to
ensure our vast banks of forest carbon are sustained, requiring
mitigation of lost carbon capturing capacity when forests are converted
to other uses. SB 144 passed the Senate on a 21-18 vote. The
bill was authored by Senator Fran Pavley, who previously wrote the
landmark Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) as well as the bill
creating the California Clean Cars standard for auto emissions. SB 144
co-sponsors include the Pacific Forest Trust, The Nature Conservancy
and the Natural Resource Defense Council.

Support writer / producer of these words: http://www.forestsworkwonders.org/2009/06/sb-144-passage-improves-outlook-for-ca.html A recent study by the Pacific Forest Trust compiled past land use
conversion data and projected the impact of predicted future
development and conversions. We found that approximately 673,000 acres
of forestland would be impacted by development between 1990 and 2050
(the compliance period for California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32).

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