09-29-2010, 09:57 AM
Prop 23's threat to the California dream
Gutting climate change law in California: Proposition 23, which is being marketed with millions of dollars from Koch Industries and Texas-based oil companies Valero and Tesoro, would suspend a landmark 2006 law that requires significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.
Proposition 23 would suspend all of those measures adopted to date, including CARB's low-carbon fuel standard, restrictions on high global warming potential refrigerants, increased landfill methane capture, SmartWay truck efficiency, tire pressure program, reduction of high global warming potential greenhouse gases in consumer products, ship electrification at ports, reduction of perfluorocarbons from the semiconductor industry, and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) reductions in non-utility and non-semiconductor applications.
Gutting climate change law in California: Proposition 23, which is being marketed with millions of dollars from Koch Industries and Texas-based oil companies Valero and Tesoro, would suspend a landmark 2006 law that requires significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.
Proposition 23 would suspend all of those measures adopted to date, including CARB's low-carbon fuel standard, restrictions on high global warming potential refrigerants, increased landfill methane capture, SmartWay truck efficiency, tire pressure program, reduction of high global warming potential greenhouse gases in consumer products, ship electrification at ports, reduction of perfluorocarbons from the semiconductor industry, and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) reductions in non-utility and non-semiconductor applications.