PROPOSITION 23
An Initiative to Suspend AB 32, the Global Warming Act of 2006 is on the November 2, 2010 ballot in California.[1]
If it passes, it will suspend AB 32, California's landmark clean air law. [2]
In their campaigns for and against Proposition 23, supporters and opponents have each adopted nicknames for the measure that clarify what they think of it.
Supporters call Proposition 23 the California Jobs Initiative and opponents call it the Dirty Energy Proposition.[3]
The goal of the initiative is to freeze the provisions of AB 32 until California's unemployment rate drops to 5.5% or below for four consecutive quarters. However, California has only achieved this three times since 1980. [4] AB 32 requires that greenhouse gas emission levels in the state be cut to 1990 levels by 2020, in a gradual process of cutting that is slated to begin in 2012.[5]
Louise Bedsworth, a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, predicted in April that total campaign spending on this proposition, if it succeeds in gaining a spot on the November ballot,
could top the $154 million record set in 2006 by Proposition 87.[6]
Page of Google links for prop 23-
http://www.google.com/search?q=calif...rlz=1I7DMUS_en