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