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Golden Gate University School of LawGGU Law Digital CommonsPublications Faculty Scholarship6-3-2014Coal Pollution and Climate ChangeAlan RamoGolden Gate University School of Law, alan_ramo@att.netFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/pubsPart of the Environmental Law CommonsThis Letter to the Editor is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at GGU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted forinclusion in Publications by an authorized administrator of GGU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact jfischer@ggu.edu.Recommended CitationRamo, Alan, "Coal Pollution and Climate Change" (2014). Publications. Paper 638.http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/pubs/63861412014 Coal Pollution and Climate Change- NYTimes.com C !\ L\'A R Y ,:•.l1C",ro·'.T 1 ----~lJeNeUJUorklbnes I http:/ ;nyti.ms/lpDKMiG ...... •, To II I ~:.I I! 1: ---- ---- -~---·-------·--·····-~···---------·~--·--···--- ... -··---···--·----·--···---...-·------····--.. ·--------·-THE OPINION PAGES I LEITERS Coal Pollution and Climate Change JUNE3,2014 To the Editor: Re "A Price Tag on Carbon as a Climate Rescue Plan" ("The Big Fix" series, front page, May 30 ): For every offset awarded under California's cap-and-trade system to a rural dairy in Wisconsin, there is pollution allowed that would have been required to be reduced by the ultimate offset purchaser. And that purchaser is often a California refinery in an urban area near thousands of people disproportionately low-income and of color. California seems to assume in the case of dairies that they would have never installed methane capture even though there is money to be made from generating electricity and ample supportive federal programs. At best, cap-and-trade as practiced in California can lead to http:h\wm.nytimes.corrV2014106104/opinl o!Vcoal-poll ution-and-cllmate-chang e.htrri?partner= rssf¥&emc= rss&_r= 0 214 6/412014 6/412014 Coal Pollution and Climate Change- NYTimes.com environmental injustice; at worst, emission reductions are a mirage, as they would have happened anyway. ALAN RAMO San Francisco, May 30, 2014 The writer is a professor at Golden Gate University School of Law and co-director of its Center on Urban Environmental Law. Coal Pollution and Climate Change- NYTimes.com © 2014 The New York Times Company 

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