Meg Whitman wants to "fix" California's global warming law
Source: Margot Roosevelt/Los Angeles Times
For weeks, Meg Whitman, California's Republican gubernatorial candidate, has said that if elected she would suspend the state's 2006 global warming law for a year. But in Tuesday's debate with Democratic candidate Jerry Brown, at Dominican University in San Rafael, she also said something else: She wants not only to delay the law, known as AB 32, but to "fix" it. She told the audience that only 3% of California jobs are "green jobs" and that the law "is going to do real damage to the rest of the jobs in the economy."
At a campaign stop Wednesday at Philippe's restaurant in L.A., Whitman was questioned by the Times' Cathleen Decker about how she would fix the law, which is aimed at slashing the state's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
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