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Back to homepageSac Bee Flip Flops on AB 32
Katy Grimes: I always like to get right to motive during a heated issue or debate. Over the weekend, the Bee wrote an editorial stating a rather new position on California’s global warming law, AB 32. After working tirelessly to
Read MoreProp 23 Makes TIME Top 10 List
Katy Grimes: Being listed in the TIME Magazine Top 10 Of Everything has a certain prestige to it – even if they are celebrating the failure of a an important ballot initiative in the last election. In the “Top 10
Read MoreCap-and-Trade Is Alive
Katy Grimes: The smack down that Prop 23 received by supporters heavily invested in AB 32, should have tipped us off that the global warming push in the U.S. is bigger than anyone realized. The Northeast states are living proof
Read MoreCalifornia Debates Its Nuclear Future
OCT. 29, 2010 By KATY GRIMES California faces an energy conundrum: The 2006 global warming law AB32, dictates the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels, by 2020. However, with the demand for electricity increasing, state energy experts are
Read MorePolluters Welcome In CA?
Katy Grimes: The California Air Resources Board will be giving away free carbon permits to big oil companies, according to a story published today in Business Week. The story reports that oil companies Shell and Conoco Phillips, would be among some companies
Read MoreBig Bucks to defeat Prop 23
Katy Grimes: UPDATE: Contributions for Proposition 23 have been updated today, according to MAPlight.org The YES on Prop 23 campaign has remained at $9,094,509 raised, and the NO on Prop 23 received another big contribution today totaling $29,932,149. Today, after
Read MoreFueling An Agenda
OCT. 14, 2010 In a deranged attempt to be the first state (again) to push an aggressive environmental agenda, California Air Resources Board officials grossly inflated pollution levels in air quality statistics by more than 340 percent in order to justify
Read MoreBerkeley's anti-Prop 23 Report
Katy Grimes: U.C. Berkeley produced its own study on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions in California. It quite interestingly states, “In the United States, California is second only to Texas in total greenhouse gas emissions.” What a clever attempt
Read MoreDemystifying the Prop. 23 battle
SEPT. 8, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Californians are faced with unusual issues every election cycle — this November is no different, with challenging “lifestyle” ballot initiatives to sort through. Proposition 23, “the California Jobs Initiative” is probably one of the
Read MoreShould state hike park fees?
AUG. 11, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Even with recent hefty park fee hikes, a battle between supporters of state funded parks and anti-tax groups resumed in the Legislature yesterday, over an upcoming ballot initiative that would add $18 to every
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