A Quality audit can cut 50% of car impact in a year (2007)

Charlie Peters
(510) 537-1796
Clean Air Performance Professionals

Category
Participants List
Confirmed

STATE GOVERNMENT – ADMINISTRATION
Linda S. Adams, Secretary for Environmental Protection, Cal/EPA

Mike Chrisman, Secretary, Resources Agency

Susan P. Kennedy, Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor

Brian C. Prusnek, Deputy Cabinet Secretary, Energy and Resources, Office of the Governor

Dan Skopec, Undersecretary, California Environmental Protection Agency

Catherine Witherspoon, Executive Officer, Air Resources Board

CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION
Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, Vice Chair

CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE
Don Perata, President pro Tempore

Sam Aanestad

Wes Chesbro

Dave Cox

Christine Kehoe

Sheila James Kuehl

Alan Lowenthal

Mike Machado

Bob Margett

George C. Runner, Jr.

Joe Simitian

CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY
Fabian Nunez, Speaker of the Assembly

Bill Emmerson

Loni Hancock

John Laird

Lloyd E. Levine

Ted W. Lieu

Nicole Parra

Fran Pavley

Sharon Runner

Alberto Torrico

WESTERN STATES
Sarah Cottrell, Energy and Environment Advisor, State of New Mexico

Steve Ellenbecker, Energy Policy Advisor, Governor Freudenthal, Wyoming

Lori Faeth, Policy Advisor, Natural Resources & Environment, Office of the Governor, Arizona

Rich Halvey, Project Manager – Air Quality, Mexico, Western Governors’ Association

Ned Farquhar, Chief Policy Advisor, Office of the Governor, Montana

Pam Inmann, Executive Director, Western Governors’ Association

Laura S. Nelson, Energy Policy Advisor, Office of the Governor, Utah

BUSINESS/INDUSTRY
Paul J. Allen, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Constellation Energy Group

Beth A. Bowman, Senior Vice President, Shell Trading Gas & Power

John J. Coffey, General Manager, U.S. State & Local Relations, Chevron Corporation

Scott Farris, Director, Government Relations, TransCanada Corporation

Thomas E. Giles, President & CEO, Sound Energy Solutions

Randy Hickok, Vice President of California Assets, Duke Energy North America

Steve Hoffmann, President, Western Region, NRG Energy, Inc.

Frederick E. John, Energy Consultant

William Keese, Energy Consultant

Renee Klimczak, President, BHP Billiton LNG International, Inc.

Robert L. Mitchell, Managing Director, Trans-Elect, Inc.

Peter C. Montgomery, Director, California Government Affairs, BP America, Inc.

Stephanie Newell, Vice President, State Affairs, Reliant Energy

Billy Owens, Vice President West Coast Development, NorthernStar Natural Gas / Clearwater Port

Dan Richard, Consultant

J. Timothy Romer, Managing Director, Municipal Finance Dept., Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Joseph E. Ronan, Senior Vice President, Govt. & Regulatory Affairs, Calpine Corporation

Jeff Russell, President, Mirant California, LLC

Jan Smutny-Jones, Executive Director, Independent Energy Producers Association

MUNICIPAL UTILITIES
Bill D. Carnahan, Executive Director, Southern California Public Power Authority

Ronald Deaton, General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power

Gerald Jordan, Executive Director, California Municipal Utilities Association

James H. Pope, General Manager, Northern California Power Agency

UTILITIES
Thomas E. Bottorff, Senior V.P., Customer Service & Revenue, Pacific Gas & Electric Company

Alan J. Fohrer, Chief Executive Officer, Southern California Edison Company

Thomas S. Sayles, Vice President, Governmental & Community Affairs, Sempra Energy

ENVIRONMENTAL
Sheryl Carter, Director, Western Energy Programs, Natural Resources Defense Council

Thomas Graff, Regional Director, Environmental Defense

Stephen P. Johnson, Director of Strategic Initiatives, The Nature Conservancy

Jason Mark, Program Director, Union of Concerned Scientists

Diane Wittenberg, President, California Climate Action Registry

LABOR
Robert L. Balgenorth, President, State Building & Construc. Trades Council

Timothy T. Cremins, Director of Educ. & Research, Calif.-Nev. Conf. of Operating Engineers

Daniel M. Curtin, Director, California Conference of Carpenters

Brian D’Arcy, Business Manager/Financial Secretary, I.B.E.W. Local Union 18

Thomas M. Dalzell, Business Manager/Financial Secretary, I.B.E.W. Local Union 1245, AFL-CIO

Jose Mejia, Director, Laborers State Council – Legislative Dept.

CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY
Patrick Johnston, Chair

Patrick F. Mason, President
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TBA, C.C.E.E.B.

Beth E. Vaughan, Consultant
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Celeste Cremen, Conference Coordinator
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OBSERVERS
Kip Lipper, Consultant, Policy Unit, Office of the Senate pro Tempore

Mary Lynch, Vice President, Regulatory & Legis. Affairs, Constellation Energy Commodities Group

Nancy E. Ryan, Energy Advisor to President Peevey

CFEE

CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY

Conference on Implementation of AB32 – The California Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Ralph Cavanagh
3rd Annual Heinz Award Recipient

Ralph Cavanagh receives the Heinz Award in Public Policy for his work in persuading legislators and regulators to permit utilities to earn money by saving energy.

Mr. Cavanagh, co-director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Energy Program, epitomizes the power of the thinker, the convener, and the listener. An optimist by nature who believes that win-win situations are possible with enough hard work, Mr. Cavanagh has been a leader in implementing the notion that environmental solutions should contribute to the bottom line of polluting businesses which traditional regulations prevented. His unparalleled success in persuading regulators of the merits of this once unorthodox view helped to prove that utility regulatory reform is viable and yields substantial environmental gains. He has used public policy in an exemplary way to bring about positive, widespread changes in existing regulations and practices.

A graduate of Yale University Law School, Ralph Cavanagh possesses impressive credentials. In addition to his duties at the National Resources Defense Council, he is a past member of the Energy Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences, and a visiting professor at both Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. But it is in the Byzantine trenches of utility policy reform that he has built his considerable reputation.

Beginning in 1979, Mr. Cavanagh focused his efforts on the electric utility sector, then accounting for as much as two-thirds of the nation’s principal air pollutants. His goal was to improve the alignment of shareholder and societal interests, so that utility profits were no longer primarily linked to promoting increased electricity use. First in the Pacific Northwest and later in California, he helped build coalitions of utilities, consumer groups, industries, regulators, and others to unleash the power of energy efficiency and renewable energy resources. Northwest utilities with which Mr. Cavanagh worked have reduced electricity needs since 1980 by the equivalent of a Seattle-sized city, while eliminating divisive conflicts over new coal-fired and nuclear plants that all parties concede are no longer needed.

In California, Mr. Cavanagh helped organize the “California Collaborative,” a set of structured negotiations among a host of traditionally opposing interests throughout the state. Since 1990, that initiative has yielded utility-financed energy efficiency improvements large enough to significantly reduce pollution and cut Californians’ energy bills by more than two billion dollars. More recently, in 1996, he shared credit for the nation’s most ambitious multi-state energy conservation partnership, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. Additionally, both in the Pacific Northwest and California, Cavanagh has worked to guarantee that low-income citizens share equally in the benefits of sustainable energy investment.

Mr. Cavanagh is the first to admit that he did not invent the idea of aligning utility shareholder and societal interests, but he is the man who proved it could be implemented on a large scale. As is so often the case, the true mark of leadership was Mr. Cavanagh’s ability to understand the concerns of all parties, and to then build a solution each party felt met its essential needs. That brand of leadership is rare, but Ralph Cavanagh, through an inspired mixture of brilliance, insight and perseverance, exhibited it in achieving one of the most sweeping regulatory turnarounds of recent times.

Note: This profile is excerpted from the commemorative brochure published at the time of the awards’ presentation.

Web site: http://www.nrdc.org/media/expert.asp

UPDATES SINCE RECEIVING THE HEINZ AWARD

May 2004 – Cavanagh receives the Lifetime Achievement in Energy Efficiency Award from California’s Flex Your Power campaign. The award recognized his demonstrated exceptional leadership and extraordinary contributions to advance energy efficiency in California. – Flex Your Power website (www.fypower.org)

August 2001 – Cavanagh is named to the board of directors of Electric Power Research Institute’s new Electricity Innovation Institute. The new institute will focus on “electrical infrastructure for a digital society” among other things, and will field a board of directors of well-known public officials – Energy Daily

December 2000 – Cavanagh’s panel on nuclear waste disposal releases its final report. In it, the committee concludes that there are indeed methods of destroying nuclear waste that are less likely to compromise human and environmental health – The Associated Press

May 2000 – Cavanagh is selected to chair a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. The purpose of the panel, which was created by the U.S. Department of Energy, is to research the methods of disposing of radioactive waste and hopefully find alternative solutions – New Technology Week

http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients.asp?action=detail&recipientID=38#

KESQ News Channel 3, (AP), Saturday, November 11, 2006

SACRAMENTO Governor Schwarzenegger’s chief of staff and a bipartisan delegation of state lawmakers have left on a 12-day trip to South America to study alternative-energy technologies.

Chief of Staff Susan Kennedy, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and high-ranking members of both the Senate and Assembly are being accompanied by representatives of energy companies and others with lobbying interests in Sacramento.

The trip will take the delegation to Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

Officials say the mission is designed to give lawmakers a lesson in ethanol production and other clean-energy technologies.

The trip was organized and funded by the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy.

On the Net:

California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy, http://www.cfee.net/

Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5665181&nav=9qrx

If you need less politicians in your life then try to get them uninvolved where they should be, like not trying to ban privately funded stem cell research, and promoting official prayer time in public schools; don’t wish for them to protect us less than they should(but don’t because they – wall street republicans who hold half of the real power under the bush administration – can make lots of money with this kind of war on the less wealthy 90%, then when we’re all eating each other they’ll be able to afford to live in gated communities.)

Keep the government out of it is a perfect recipe for the kind of capitalism we had during the industrial revolution, you know when children worked 70 hour weeks and coal companies hired armies of mercenaries to murder striking workers and their families in the thousands.

Let’s also not forget that these ads run on public airwaves. I would much rather my children be exposed to the occasional african american booby than this kind of shit.

Big oil will do nothing for this problem. Government can funnel some money into research and something will be accomplished. I’d prefer something to nothing. We’ll pay more for gas no matter what.

I’m tired of the “why should government be involved” crap, and it is a load of crap. Government is responsive to the people, unlike corporate America (and corporate world). It is the only way some problems will be solved. And it really pisses off the right (an added benefit).

You can do something by investing your own money into these groups that are researching and developing alternatives. Why wait for the government to do anything? The problem is most investors want some kind of return for thier investment…. if it was promising enough the money would be pouring into these groups. Because its not, means the people with money to invest are not sure alternatives are going to be viable.
Besides we both know that as soon as alternatives do become viable and start replacing oil based fuels that they will be taxed the same as oil is now. Because the government makes more per gallon then does the oil companies, they are not interested in seeing that income go away.

David, Why does goverment have to be involved?

Because the government is in bed with Big Oil. The sooner that we force them to do something about their best buddies, the better. And no, I didn’t just say oil was bad. I said Big Oil was bad. There is a difference.

If Prop. 87 will be such a money tree for the oil business, how come they’re spending millions to fight it?

Anything the corporate clowns in this country oppose, I’m all for. They have no ethics and no responsibility. We should be demanding more governement regulation of irresponsible corporations. They run the world as it is.

The $0.51 per gal. corporate welfare to the oil refiners for adding 5.6% ethanol to California gas is about $500,000,000.00 per year.

The ethanol may add over $1.00 per gal. to the gas profit in California.

That may be about $100 billion in oil profit from California motorists.

The science is interesting but so is the money.

A $4 billion Prop. 87 oil tax may add $40 billion in oil profit.

Charlie Peters
(510) 537-1796
Clean Air Performance Professionals

CAPP contact: Charlie Peters (510) 537-1796 cappcharlie@earthlink.net

That is already happening, so no need to fret about it anymore.

What about our allies? What about the other countries of the world being overtaken by the muslim extremist?

Yeah, what about our allies? And what are all those countries “being overtaken” by Muslim extremists? Sounds a little apocalyptic to me.

We should just wait till they gather at our shores?

More apocalyptic visions here. The same thing was said about the “Red Danger”. And how exactly would Muslims extremists “gather at our shores”?

OK, I follow that and agree.

“My point is that from a stategic point our emeny has nothing really to gain and everything to lose by striking us again in our country”

About the only truth and sense Bush ever uttered is that the enemy has no face. (I think that’s a quote). We could kill every living thing in Iraq and Afganistan and there would still be plenty of people with the desire and means to attack the U.S. or allies. Muslim extremists exist in more countries than just the middle east.

Mikey killing terrorists in Iraq has nothing to do with bombs coming across the border.

Tell that to Bush.