Kudos to California. (Victory).(2001 conservation efforts generate savings)(Brief Article)

Publication: OnEarth

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COPYRIGHT 2003 Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Around the time Vice President Cheney was dismissing energy conservation as nothing more than "a sign of personal virtue," Californians were proving him wrong. Conservation undertaken in spring 2001 by residents and businesses spared the state an estimated $20 billion from rolling blackouts that summer; furthermore, much of that...

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