Lenny Goldberg: Global warming: Carbon fee moves to the front of the debate

The greenhouse-gas bill, AB 32, contains a little-noticed provision that
goes to the very heart of slowing global warming: It grants the Air
Resources Board the ability to impose a broad-based carbon-emissions fee on
greenhouse gases.

It was in fact noticed by a few Republicans, who used it as the reason to
oppose the bill on the Assembly floor. In response, Speaker N