Excerpt from The Daily Green:
What Proposition 23's Defeat in California Means for the Rest of Us
They didn't. Good for them. Rhode Islanders elected to hold onto Rhode Island's historical heritage.
Three thousand miles away, Californians looked to the future and dumped Proposition 23 into the shredder. Therein lies a critical lesson for supporters of climate stewardship regrouping in the wake of an entirely unsatisfactory 111th Congress and an election outcome that seemed to worsen the polarization of climate change along partisan and ideological fractures.
If ever there was a time for the fossil fuel incumbents to throttle carbon pollution limits in their cradle, this was the time. California is an economic mess - 12-plus percent unemployment, foreclosures trashing the housing market, and a gloomy sense that the state which built huge public works and one of the world's great university systems can't hack it anymore, like an aging pitcher who has lost his fastball.
Proposition 23's message was simple. The state's climate law, AB 32, and its carbon emissions cap will kill jobs and kick the state's economy while it's down. With plenty of Texas oil money to spend, the Prop. 23 campaign to kill the law might have cruised.
Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/republican/prop-23-california-461110#ixzz16RudGDCa
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