Hostile Climate Greets Governor's Plan to Save Earth
Environmentalists and businesses are cool to Schwarzenegger's global warming initiative.
By Marc Lifsher, Times Staff Writer
August 14, 2006
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is running for reelection as a self-styled bold leader, who can boost the business climate at the same time he protects the planet from global warming.
But Schwarzenegger's latest plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2012 is being greeted with skepticism by many environmentalists and downright opposition from major business lobbyists.
And if a compromise is to emerge, it must come in the next three weeks. The Legislature finishes for the year Aug. 31....
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The bill designed to carry out the governor's Climate Action Initiative is heading toward final action in the Legislature. But many of its details remain hotly contested.
Still being debated — in committee rooms and behind closed doors — are issues of which businesses would be regulated, what agency would be charged with enforcement and what restrictions would be imposed on the state's big air polluters....
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