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Enter search term(s) NEWS Print Article Email Article Local News Lifestyle Article Launched: 05/05/2006 04:30:41 AM PDT Business More News Sunday on the Strip Opinion Climate for change: Forests will play vital role in state Voices Creek corrections emission reductions Turning up the heat on Obituaries John Driscoll The Times-Standard homelessness here Weather Zoe Barnum students spend Earthquakes ARCATA -- Northern 's forests will Saturday cleaning up streets Restore & Preserve Winds kick up, but not as be crucial in meeting new state goals to Week In Review strong as anticipated fight climate change, a panel of experts Mentor reception set for said at Humboldt State University on Thursday. Thursday Childhood Lead Poisoning It was the first of five forums held on the state's Climate Action Report, which Prevention Week calls for drastic reductions in emissions by 2050. 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”From a practical aspect you have to answer what it is that will really make this work,” Nelson said.

Another voiced a similar concern about the report's forward thinking butting up against inaction on the part of other state agencies.

Ted Green, director of CogenWorks -- made up of businesses, governments, hospitals and universities -- is calling for the state Public Utilities Commission to expand natural gas and wood-burning generation capacity.

He said that cogeneration cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 26 million tons yearly, the equivalent of taking 5 million cars off the road. He said there's no way the PUC can meet the governor's emissions goals unless it adopts recommendations by the California Energy Commission. That agency warned that some 2,000 megawatts of cogeneration power could go off-line by 2010, dumping huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The PUC has yet to adopt those recommendations.

Also important, said HSU's Mike Ives, is the ability of the network of monitoring devices across the state to register air pollutants. Unless that is coordinated, he said, there will be no way to understand climate change.

The report and other information can be found at http://www.climatechange.ca.gov.

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