Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday filled a vacancy on the California Energy Commission (CEC) by appointing Karen Douglas, an attorney with the national group Environmental Defense, to the five-member panel that sites electric generation plants and does the state’s energy resource planning and research. Douglas fills the CEC seat designated for an attorney. The appointment requires confirmation by the California Senate. The other CEC positions, all currently filled, are designated by law to come from the environmental, economics, science/engineering, and general public sectors. Douglas was the environmental group’s Director of the California Climate Initiative, helping build the organization’s climate team. She was one of the key environmental lobbyists helping to craft and get passed the state’s 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32).

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