Chip Jacobs

Note to readers: the following story is a longer, slightly different version of the article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other outlets on February 5, 2010. To see that version, click here. Not long ago, most Californians harvesting green energy at home had pretty much one way to turn: toward their eaves. [...]

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WAS CONVICTED SMOG-CREDIT SWINDLER ANNE SHOLTZ PART OF SHADY INTERNATIONAL ‘MONEY REPATRIATION’ SCHEMES? August 20, 2009 By Chip Jacobs for the Pasadena Weekly The demise of Anne Sholtz’s once-grand life is evident in the smaller things. It’s there in the GPS-tracking bracelet — standard issue for felons in home detention — that looped around her [...]

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Can the GM Volt really get 230 MPG? Story If you’re skeptical about that, how do you feel about carbon sequestration. Count us as skeptics here, until that “ah-ha” moment of truth in science and consensus in D.C. Link. The public’s de-prioritizing environmental cleanup during hard economic times is both common sense and old hat [...]

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People, we have lots of ground to cover. Let’s get started. From the Los Angeles Times story “In an effort to clean the air along the nation’s choked highways, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a major regulation to control nitrogen dioxide, a key factor in respiratory illness …” Consistent with other GW news [...]

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Here’s a teaser opening from the Pasadena Weekly story about congressional interest in this case. “A former Pasadena businesswoman convicted of engineering a fraudulent cap-and-trade pollution credit deal involving millions of dollars and one of the world’s biggest oil companies is at the heart of a congressional inquiry into the government’s latest response to global [...]

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Californians are less concerned about smog and global warming than they used to be. Here’s the story about the poll in the Los Angeles Times. Why some scientists now believe climate change is worse than many imagined is the focus of this Newsweek piece. “Shock” is not a word you want to hear. Freeways and [...]

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