Meg Whitman and Oil Corps Seek to Overturn California's Anti-Global Climate Change Bill:

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"California Climate-Change Law Is Challenged

| Among the victims of the financial downturn could be a law that was one of the a signature accomplishments of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: AB32, the ground-breaking measure to control industrial and vehicular emissions linked to climate change.

Led and underwritten by Valero and two other Texas oil companies, a coalition of business is supporting a ballot petition to delay the law until California’s unemployment rate is cut by more than half, to 5 percent.

The effort to postpone the first economy-wide cap on carbon emissions has the backing of Meg Whitman, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, who has pledged to suspend the law on her first day in office. Even Governor Schwarzenegger, who has staked his legacy on environmental issues, has begun urging air regulators to move slowly. But he has promised to fight the ballot initiative. "

http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/sampler-pges-new-rates-might-hurt-solar-and-cats-prowl-amid-crime-evidence/

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1. Arnold Schwartenegger HAS NO environmental "accomplishments" other than to appeal to wishful

thinking.

EVERY California "environmental initiative" for the last 30 years has been a "feel smug now, do it later initiative."

They were supposed to have 10% ZEV vehicles by 2003.

Where are they?

If California had to live now by an initiative, it would shut down immediately, since they are owned wholly and totally by the dangerous natural gas industry, hence the junk "wind will save us" and "solar will save us" rhetoric.