http://www.builditgreen.org Build It Green Release RSS feed. Build It Green. Copyright 2005, Build It Green Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@builditgreen.org Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:05:01 GMT Release http://www.builditgreen.org/en/rel/148/ by Donald Simon Wendel Rosen Black & Dean This November's California state election presents the most critical moment so far for the green building movement and climate policy, and the implications could be global. Voters will decide whether California will retreat from its landmark Climate Change law, AB 32. Signed into law in 2006 by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, AB 32 commits the state to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Placed on the ballot by two Texas oil companies and out of state coal interests, Proposition 23 would suspend AB 32 indefinitely. Regardless of Prop 23, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has pledged she will do the same on her first day in office if she is elected governor.1 (Read more about the campaign to stop Prop 23) Whitman and the sponsors of Prop 23 claim that AB 32 will harm California's economy, notwithstanding the fact that AB 32 has made California the hub... http://www.builditgreen.org/en/rel/148/ noemail@builditgreen.org Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:00:00 GMT