Do you hear that? Oil companies are pleading for support in passing the pro-Big Oil Proposition 23 to gut California's law that requires emissions of greenhouse gases in the state to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. God forbid that California move to cleaner energy sources. Oil dependence forever!
Republican Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina is big supporter of the law while Meg Whitman has refused to state what her position on Proposition 23 is.
Democrats Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer oppose Proposition 23.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704394704575495902377602556.html
Oil refiners are stepping up their campaign to suspend a landmark California environmental law, and proponents of clean technology are writing their own checks to defend the law.
Proposition 23, an initiative on the November ballot, would suspend the 2006 law that requires emissions of greenhouse gases in the state to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020.
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Refiners Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., both of San Antonio, have given about $4 million and $1.5 million so far in support of Prop. 23, most of it in the past six weeks, according to state campaign-finance filings. Earlier this month, an oil-refining subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc. contributed $1 million, according to the filings.
On Tuesday, the president of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association solicited financial support for Prop. 23 from the group's members. "I am pleading with each of you—for our nation's best interest and for your company's own self-interest," wrote Charles Drevna in an email that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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