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Fri 4 Apr 2008

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Southern California Edison named the Green Giant of the Year

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Energy Education Foundation Announces “The Green Giant Award” of the Year to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Southern California Edison  

Sacramento, Calif., April 3, 2008 – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Southern California Edison have been named for “The Green Giant” of the year award for 2008 by the Energy Education Foundation. The eco friendly awards will be presented at a VIP only event scheduled for April 8, 2008 at the Sheraton Hotel’s Royal Room located at 1230 J Street Sacramento, CA.  The VIP event is in conjunction with the Green California Summit and Expo Conference in taking place in Sacramento this week.

 

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“This is a milestone in many respects,” Bill Cullifer, Executive Director of the Energy Education Foundation. “The importance of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Southern California Edison efforts to ‘Say Yes to Green’ are most impressive, says Cullifer.”  Governor Schwarzenegger recently highlighted the nation’s largest rooftop solar installation project by the utility company Southern California Edison as key to achieving California’s renewable energy goals. The project will generate enough clean power to serve 162,000 Southern California homes.  

 

“As a member of the Green Giant selection committee, we’re delighted to be involved with the selection process and we’re particularly pleased that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Southern California Edison have been awarded the Green Giant of the Year for 2008,” says Conrad Melancon, President of RMS Communication. “We’re also pleased to be sponsors of the Energy Education Foundations ‘SayYesToGreen.org’ initiative by donating proceeds of recycled cellular telephones that will support and fund Energy Education and Conservation education through our Cell4Cash.com program.

 

Accepting the award on behalf of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was Bizmarck Obando, Director of External Affairs.

Accepting the awards on behalf of the Southern California Edison was Michael B. Lo, Manager -Institutional Partnership Programs Energy Efficiency Division.

 

 

 

Sun 23 Dec 2007

Schwarzenegger vs. the Feds

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TIME’S Kristin Kloberdanz sat down with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mary Nichols, chairperson of the California Air Resources Board, in Fresno, California to discuss the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denying the right of California and 16 other states to set their own fuel emission standards.

Here’s an excerpt:

TIME: How frustrating was the EPA ruling?
SCHWARZENEGGER: I always start with the positive. I was very happy that Congress and that the President signed into law [an improvement for] fuel efficiency of the vehicles by the year 2020. That is the first time in a long time, which, of course doesn’t say much for the United States…. But it’s good news. So that’s number one. It’s one of those things that you get that news in the morning and then a few hours later, then you get the real bad news. Which is that they don’t believe that we should be controlling our own destiny and cleaning up the air and controlling the tailpipe emissions and all those kinds of things.

What this means is, we sued them in order to get the waiver [to set their own standards], now we’re going to sue them to overturn the decision [denying the states the right to set their own standards]. And I think what it’s basically saying is that they made a decision which is against the will of millions of people in California. It’s a decision that is against the will of 16 other states. When I look at that, the Environmental Protection Agency is the Environmental Destruction Agency. The name says it protects the environment. How can that protect the environment when you don’t want to let anyone really move forward with this agenda? And [as for] the excuse that it is a national issue and therefore it must be handled at a national level — I say to myself, “Wait a minute, let me think this through for a second,” which we always do, we think a little bit. If you have a national problem with hunger and starvation, do I say, “Stop feeding people at the local level. We can’t get involved. We have to have a policy nationally.” No, we don’t.

Complete story: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1697552,00.html?imw=Y