By Christopher Arns
April 18, 2013

A prominent business group slammed a recent lawsuit against California's cap-and-trade system Wednesday and announced support for a new plan to extend the program to Quebec.

As we reported earlier this week, a conservative group called the Pacific Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit against the program, calling it an "unconstitutional tax" that should have been approved by a two-thirds vote in the California Legislature.

Leaders from the California Business Alliance for a Green Economy responded Wednesday by dismissing the lawsuit. "Some folks are being dragged kicking and screaming into the new clean energy economy," said Susan Frank, director of the alliance, which represents more than a 1,000 California businesses and business organizations that support the state's global warming law.

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Read the Business Alliance press release here.
 

Read California Air Resources Board (CARB) press release here.

April 25, 2013  

As the California Air Resources Board (CARB) hears public comment on how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues from the Golden State's clean energy law (AB 32), business leaders say state officials should grab the chance to widen California's lead in the global clean energy race.  

Read the full press release here.

Between courting investors and strategic partners and uncovering the enormous challenges and opportunities represented in China's 1.3 billion population, Governor Jerry Brown continues to advance his sustainable vision and global legacy. 

A key focus of the governor's 10-day trade mission to China was to share California's invaluable experience of growing its economy while reducing pollution with its pioneering low carbon
development policies. That's the opportunity that prompted us to join this unprecedented mission - and it may also end up as Governor Brown's most enduring and critical accomplishment. 
 

"We're in one world and we've got one big problem," Brown told an audience of U.S. delegates, Chinese officials, students, and scholars at Tsinghua University last Thursday.  

Read the rest of the op-ed here.

Blue Oak Energy was founded on a singular belief - the transition to clean, renewable energy is an irreversible and irresistible trend. Since 2003, the company has been building a world-class team, solely focused on designing, building, and maintaining photovoltaic (PV) systems, positioning it at the forefront of this movement.

Blue Oak Energy, a Business Alliance member, recently completed a 4.2 MW utility scale solar power generation facility in Gridley, California. The electricity generated by the Gridley solar facility will be directed to two members of the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA): the City of Gridley and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).

The Gridley solar facility is a ground-mounted solar electric system comprised of 17,584 solar panels. The solar modules are mounted on a single-axis tracker system which follows the daily movement of the sun to increase energy harvest. 

Residents of Gridley, a picturesque community nestled at the foot of the the Sutter Buttes mountain range, appreciated that the project construction utilized local labor and local suppliers, and will generate clean power for the City of Gridley. 
 

Read more about the project here, and more about Blue Oak Energy here.