NO on 23

Prop. 23 is being bankrolled by oil and coal companies that want to kill California’s clean energy industry. If passed, the Dirty Energy Prop would destroy hundreds of thousands of California jobs and increase our addiction to fossil fuels. Our generation knows that NOW is the time for a clean energy future – to protect our national security, rebuild our economy, and prevent catastrophic climate change.

Prop 23 Funders

Facts

• Clean energy industry has the potential to revitalize the Californian economy and create
  millions of new jobs.¹
• California passed the first comprehensive global warming law in the United States. ²
• California’s clean energy industry continues to lead, with silicon valley producing new solar technology, electric cars, and more. ³
• Hundreds of local businesses, civic, labor, and environmental organizations are battling a small group of powerful out-of-state oil refiners and connected groups. ⁴
• Primary funders of the Proposition are two of the biggest polluters in California – Tesoro
  and Valero (Texas-based oil companies with almost $150 billion in revenue in 2009). ⁵
• There are over 500,000 California jobs in the clean tech sector and Prop 23 threatens the state’s economy. ^{David Roland-Holst, UC Berkeley, “Energy Prices and California’s Economic Security,” Next 10, Oct. 2009.}
• Green jobs have grown 10 times faster than the average job growth in CA since 2005. ^{6 (.pdf)}
• 80% of the funding for the “Yes on 23″ campaign have come from outside of California ⁷
• “No on 23″ campaign has bi-partisan support – co-chaired by George Shultz, Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and Tony Steyer, a hedge-fund manager and major Democratic donor. ⁸
• According to the American Lung Association, poor air quality contributes to 19,000 premature deaths, 9,400 hospitalizations, and 300,000 cases of respiratory illness each year in California alone. The Dirty Energy Proposition would continue our unhealthy addiction to fossil fuels and stymie our progress towards a clean energy future. ^{9 (.pdf)}
• Over 100 economists from California and across the World called for citizens to protect the Global Warming Solutions Act. ^{10 (.pdf)}

Articles

• Oil companies behind the effort to suspend CA global warming law are major polluters
• Battle Over California Climate Law Will Have National Ripple Effect
• Tesoro is recruiting other Big Oil companies, including BP, to repeal California climate and clean energy laws
• George Shultz challenges California to Lead
• AB32 will improve lives of low income and minority Californians
• Poll Shows Support for Climate Law
• Biz Leaders: Prop 23 Could Stall Renewable Energy Investments
• Ohio coal company that backed Fiorina also gave to Prop 23
• Prop 23′s Anita Mangels wants you to know that greenhouse gases are ‘emissions,’ not ‘pollutants’
• The dirty oil coalition behind the Proposition 23 effort to stop clean energy just got a lot dirtier
• Billionaire Koch brothers back suspension of California climate law
• California’s Proposition 23 Is Bad News for Latino Families