Director, UC Berkeley's Environmental Law Program
Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley and director of its Environmental Law Program
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Dan Farber
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FROM Dan Farber
Which Way, L.A.?
California Politics and Global Warming Proposition 23 on the November ballot would suspend Governor Schwarzenegger's proudest achievement, AB 32 . The law that sets limits on emissions of greenhouse gases would not go back into effect until unemployment stayed at 5.5% for four consecutive quarters. The Prop 23 campaign is funded mostly by out-of-state energy companies. It's supported by the business-oriented base of California's Republican Party but, in a blue state where Independents will make the difference, Republican candidates are having trouble. The campaign against it is getting money from Silicon Valley and other centers of the so-called "green economy." The law school at UC Berkeley issued a study today called California at the Crossroads : Proposition 23, AB 32 and Climate Change.
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