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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."
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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.


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Governor’s Hit List Needs More Diversity
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 6.8.2011

Governor Jerry Brown wants to eliminate dozens of state panels and commissions, a good idea and long overdue. But the governor needs to be more inclusive, and stalk bigger game.
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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Implementing AB 32 will increase unemployment, household expenses
By: Kenneth P. Green on 8.16.2012

With the passage of California's Assembly Bill 32, the Golden State has embarked upon an experiment in energy policy that has no modern parallel.

 



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Unfounded fears threaten energy success story
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D on 8.19.2011

Researchers at MIT recently forecast that natural gas production from five American shale reserves would double in five years and triple in 20. These U.S. sources of gas can transform America's energy outlook, provided lawmakers don't interfere with the process.

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