Global Warming Trends

Businessweek – August 6, 2010

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.

An initiative seeking to suspend California’s landmark global warming law is attracting more money than any other proposition on the November ballot, according to campaign-finance reports filed Monday.

Environmentalists and oil companies are facing off in the battle over Proposition 23, which seeks to delay regulations on greenhouse gas emissions until California’s unemployment rate, now at 12.3 percent, falls to 5.5 percent and stays there for four consecutive quarters.

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The Sacremento Bee – July 15, 2010

Supporters of California’s global warming law have raised more than $2 million so far to defend the landmark legislation in what’s shaping up as an expensive November ballot battle.

Filings with the California secretary of state show that environmental groups and clean energy advocates were big givers to the campaign against Proposition 23, which would suspend AB 32 until the unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent.

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