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The basic premise of AB32 fails a grade-school math test
By: Kelly Gorton
11.2.2010
According to T.J. Rodgers, the founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. "I know firsthand about green jobs. SunPower Corp., a company I chair and the second-largest U.S. producer of solar cells, has produced about 800 green jobs in California. But that's just a fraction of the 4,700 jobs lost when Toyota pulled the plug on its local Nummi automotive plant due to the high cost of doing business in California."
Prop 23, AB32, SunPower, Cypress Semiconductor, California, energy, environment, unemployment, emissions, election
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California’s Green Economy Failure
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D
10.19.2010
In order to satisfy the admonition that “California has to be a leader” — a rationale shallow even by the standards of political sloganeering — the Golden State enacted in 2006 the Global Warming Solutions Act (“AB32”), mandating a reduction in purported greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
California, Green, Economy, Failure
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Investigate CARBifornia
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 3.23.2011
In early April, UCLA will decide whether to fire epidemiologist James Enstrom, a fixture in the UCLA Department of Public Health since the 1970s. If UCLA does give him the boot, Assemblyman Dan Logue has threatened to hold hearings. Whatever happens to Enstrom, legislators have good reason to investigate.
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Court cools global-warming controversy
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D, Michael Noffsinger on 7.28.2011
The U.S. Supreme Court recently rebuffed environmentalists in their bid to get the judiciary to intervene in the global-warming controversy by invoking the old common law of nuisance, as though global warming could be solved through an injunction.
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