Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/22/2010 9:05:29 PM PDT by SmithL
Californians heading to the polls in November will vote whether to derail the state's landmark greenhouse gas emission law.
Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced this afternoon that the measure to delay Assembly Bill 32, the 2006 law mandating the state reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, has qualified for the ballot. Proponents, who needed to submit at least 435,000 valid voter signatures to make the cut, reached the threshold for qualifying through the random sample process.
The measure, called the California Jobs Initiative, calls for delaying implementation of the regulations until the state unemployment rate -- which currently hovers at about 12 percent -- drops to 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters.
The initiative's backers deride AB 32 as a "job killer" and say that complying with the law's mandates will hurt businesses on the brink of recovery. They cite various studies, some of which have been dismissed or criticized by other academics, finding that the regulations would cost the state jobs. The Legislative Analyst's Office concluded in a report this spring that AB 32 could result in job losses in the short term but that it was unclear what the long-term impact would be.
"AB 32 will impose billions of dollars in higher utility rates and fuel prices on California families when they can least afford it," said campaign co-chair Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. "The California Jobs Initiative will let voters - not politicians and unelected bureaucrats - decide whether or not now is the right time for this massive new energy tax."
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More aptly names the Destruction of Jobs Initiative...
Too bad the initiative does not just kill this measure outright.
Well if California is not finished the passage of this bill will do it.
The brilliant RINO governor can’t be happy about this development.
Hallelujah!
AB 32 is just the worst in a long line of really stupid anti-business enviro laws/regulations which will continue to torment us. I swear, they'd pass a law forbidding wildfires from smoking if they could figure out a way to collect the fines.
It's really a tough thing to say, but I think Californians are finally suffering enough to see the folly of our ways. Maybe. I hope.
No, you’re not.
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