Opponents of Texas Oil Company-Funded Dirty Energy Proposition React to Qualification of Measure for November General Election Ballot
SACRAMENTO – California’s leading business, public health, senior, and environmental groups, along with 300 other business groups today promised to fight a deceptive ballot measure being bankrolled by two Texas oil companies that today qualified for the November general election ballot.
Opponents of the ballot proposition say it will kill the state’s growing clean tech economy, increase air pollution, and drive up energy costs for businesses and homeowners. They also criticized the special interests behind the initiative for spending millions of dollars on a measure that will benefit the oil industry while the Gulf oil crisis threatens the nation’s economy and environment. The oil company coalition is already being widely criticized by newspaper editorials, independent economists, and third parties for the deceptive nature of their campaign and false claims. Full article.
Opponents of Texas Oil Company-Funded Dirty Energy Proposition React to Qualification of Measure for November General Election Ballot
SACRAMENTO – California’s leading business, public health, senior, and environmental groups, along with 300 other business groups today promised to fight a deceptive ballot measure being bankrolled by two Texas oil companies that today qualified for the November general election ballot.
Opponents of the ballot proposition say it will kill the state’s growing clean tech economy, increase air pollution, and drive up energy costs for businesses and homeowners. They also criticized the special interests behind the initiative for spending millions of dollars on a measure that will benefit the oil industry while the Gulf oil crisis threatens the nation’s economy and environment. The oil company coalition is already being widely criticized by newspaper editorials, independent economists, and third parties for the deceptive nature of their campaign and false claims. Full article.
Sierra Club California Opposes Proposed Big Oil Initiative on November 2010 Ballot
Big Texas oil companies are trying to buy their way out of cleaning up their California refineries and fuels. Companies like Valero and Tesoro recently announced that they plan on fully funding a November ballot initiative that would halt clean energy efforts and pollution control standards aimed at cleaning up our air and atmosphere for our kids and future generations.
The initiative would suspend California’s landmark anti-global warming law, the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32, 2006), unless unemployment dropped below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters, something that has only happened three times in the past thirty years.
Valero and Tesoro are the seventh and eighth largest polluters in California. Valero and Tesoro combined are responsible for 16.7% of reported emissions in California.
These Texas oilmen have pledged $2 million to pay signature gatherers, in an outrageous perversion of our initiative process. We urge Californians to NOT sign any petitions supporting this deceptive ballot initiative. Doing so would increase our dependence on oil, cost us more money at the gas pump, guarantee that our children continue to suffer from asthma and other harmful side effects caused by dirty air, and hold California back from creating jobs through advancements in clean technology.
Californians support improving the air we breathe and cleaning up our atmosphere. We want to be a leading innovator in breakthrough technologies in renewable energy, electric vehicles and energy efficiency. Having standards in place that allow us to advance these goals will help both our economy and our environment.
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Deceptive Proposition 23 is Harmful to People of Color and Low-Income Communities
Prop. 23 Would Kill Jobs, Increase Air Pollution & Harm Working Families
Proposition 23 to Repeal California Clean Energy and Pollution Control Standards Is Bad for Business, Innovation & Our Economy
Proposition 23 Threatens Public Health & Would Kill Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gases in California
Attempts to Repeal California Clean Energy and Clean Air Laws Will Kill Jobs
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