| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Late Friday, lawmakers killed an effort to extend until 2020 the public goods charge, a 1.5 percent tax on utility bills put in place in 1996 by former state Sen. Byron Sher, D-Palo Alto, that raises roughly $400 million a year for renewable energy projects and research grants for solar, wind and other new technologies.
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