A few years ago, the state of California passed a landmark bill designed to reign in carbon pollution to 1990 levels by 2020, and Governor Schwarzenegger signed it into law. Now, the trailblazing law is beginning to take effect -- but wouldn't you know it? The fossil fuel industry and conservative politicians who ally themselves with it are attempting to shut it down. In particular, a number of Texas-based oil companies have begun funneling millions of dollars into misleading campaigns designed to overturn California's law.
Proposition 23 is the Big Oil-backed prop that would overturn CA's climate law. Fueld by the Tea Party ideology popular in conservative circles, the GOP's top candidates for Senator and Governor have been publicly calling to overturn the law as well -- predictably, they're attempting to label it a jobs killer. Thankfully, California voters aren't buying the nonsense: Two out of three continue to support the climate law despite the opportunistic smear campaign from the GOP.
Which is where the oil companies come in -- perhaps disheartened by the positive polling, companies like Valero, Tesoro, and others, have begun pouring money into a campaign designed to convince the public that transitioning to cleaner energies and stimulating the development and deployment of renewable technologies will somehow kill jobs. In fact, that's precisely what the oil companies are calling their public front group designed to take down the climate law: The California Jobs Initiative. I don't know how much more disingenuous you can get.
Proposition 23 is the Big Oil-backed prop that would overturn CA's climate law. Fueld by the Tea Party ideology popular in conservative circles, the GOP's top candidates for Senator and Governor have been publicly calling to overturn the law as well -- predictably, they're attempting to label it a jobs killer. Thankfully, California voters aren't buying the nonsense: Two out of three continue to support the climate law despite the opportunistic smear campaign from the GOP.
Which is where the oil companies come in -- perhaps disheartened by the positive polling, companies like Valero, Tesoro, and others, have begun pouring money into a campaign designed to convince the public that transitioning to cleaner energies and stimulating the development and deployment of renewable technologies will somehow kill jobs. In fact, that's precisely what the oil companies are calling their public front group designed to take down the climate law: The California Jobs Initiative. I don't know how much more disingenuous you can get.
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