Sentences with phrase «warming law»

It also arrays many conservative political leaders, including the GOP nominee for governor, Meg Whitman, against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fellow Republican who regards the global warming law as a key part of his legacy.

Whitman has said she would suspend the global - warming law for one year but has not endorsed the initiative.

The global warming law requires California to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Since the passage of its landmark global warming law in 2006, California has been reducing carbon emissions from cars, trucks, homes and factories, while boosting production of renewable energy.

Frankly, California doesn't need a global warming law as it puts California on the downside of being competitive.

Battershell said she voted for Proposition 23, which would have postponed California's global warming law, A.B. 32, until unemployment fell to 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters.

Green groups and AB 32 supporters fear Prop 26 could cripple efforts to levy fees to implement the global warming law.

Environmentalists are using the information that scientists find to argue that the science shows that global warming laws should be passed.

With the failure of federal climate change legislation, considerable national attention is focused on Proposition 23, which marks the first time a global warming law has been put before voters.

At the start of the campaign for California's Proposition 23, the ballot measure that would suspend the state's global warming law, opponents darkly warned that the Texas oil companies backing the initiative would spend as much as $ 50 million to win the election.

An appeal to afflicted communities: an image circulated by foes of the repeal of a state global warming law.

George P. Shultz, the Republican former secretary of state, and Thomas F. Steyer, the Democratic hedge fund billionaire, are reviving the coalition that campaigned last year to defeat Proposition 23, the California ballot measure that would have derailed the state's» landmark global warming law.

Proposition 23 would have effectively derailed the state's landmark global warming law, which would have been a big setback for California's blooming green technology industry.

The fight over Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative that would suspend the state's landmark global warming law, has spawned some unusual political alliances.

The landmark global warming law, which is being enforced in phases, could put the state's businesses at a competitive disadvantage unless other states and the federal government come up with similar plans, the study by the nonpartisan agency said.

Opponents counter that the global warming law is producing hundreds of thousands of jobs in a new green economy as investors pour billions of dollars into companies manufacturing everything from solar panels to electric cars.

The program is a centerpiece of California's landmark global warming law, AB32, which orders a nearly 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gases over the next decade.

But California's landmark global warming law, passed in 2006, requires the state's greenhouse gas emissions to be slashed to 1990 levels by 2020, amounting to a 30 % cut over expected levels.

California's global warming law, AB32, calls for utilities to increase their use of renewable energy to at least 30 percent by 2020, and some say they may not make it.

Their new organization, Californians for Clean Energy and Jobs, will push for greater investment in green technology and the enforcement of the global warming law, known as A.B. 32, according to Mr. Steyer, founder of Farallon Capital Management in San Francisco.