Bid to suspend California emission law goes to ballot
California voters will be asked in November to suspend the state's greenhouse gas emissions law known as AB32.
The secretary of state certified on Tuesday that the measure had the required signatures to be included in the fall election
The proposition would suspend the 2008 law until unemployment in the state drops to an average of 4.8 percent for a full year.
The jobless rate has been at that level four times since 1976 and currently is 12.4 percent.
The proposal is backed as the California Jobs Initiative by supporters, which include the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Manufacturing and Technology Association and Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro.
They say AB32 costs the state jobs when it can ill afford to impose higher costs on industry.
It is opposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Democrat candidate to succeed him Jerry Brown and a number of environmental and green technology advocates.
Read the full post in the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
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