On June 22, a ballot measure that would suspend AB 32, California’s historic climate change law, qualified for the November 2010 ballot. Prop 23, the California Jobs Initiative, would require that AB 32 and its greenhouse gas reduction program be suspended until the unemployment rate in California drops below 5.5 percent for at least four consecutive quarters. This would essentially overturn the landmark law, because since 1976 California’s unemployment rate has rarely dipped that low.
This ballot measure would also suspend emission reporting and fee requirements for major polluters. AB 32 serves as a model worldwide, for it has already resulted in the growth of clean technology and given rise to many new jobs. A suspension of this climate change policy would freeze progress on both a national and an international scale. As reported by Margot Roosevelt in the Los Angeles Times on June 23, 2010, the battle over the initiative, launched (and mostly funded) by Texas oil giants Valero and Tesoro, will pit that industry against environmentalists and the state’s clean-tech businesses.
Let’s get the facts and then spread the word:
http://www.stopdirtyenergyprop.com
http://www.suspendab32.org
http://www.jobs2010ca.com
