Whitman Supports Environmentally Racist Project

by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse

Is racism ok when it happens in an environmental context? Whitman's upset that Chevron could not proceed with its project to upgrade a refinery in California that is a major source of pollution. The refinery is located in a minority and low-income community. Studies have shown that decisions to locate polluting facilities in low-income and minority communities are not mere happenstance.  The community already suffers high rates of illness and disease and a horrible quality of life. Chevron wanted to upgrade its facility without clearly disclosing what type of crude would be refined, but indications are that the upgrade would allow it to handle dirtier crude oils, resulting in more pollution.  When a court stopped the project because Chevron did not comply with our law, Whitman complained that 1,000 construction jobs were lost. This job meme is often used to justify the initial location of the polluting facilities. Why is Whitman not delighted about the lives that so far have been spared more sickness and death had this project moved forward?

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Whitman's One-Two Punch to Health And Environment

by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse

Some friends shared their frustration with trying to make sense of the interrelationship of AB 32 (California's climate change law), Proposition 23 (a ballot measure to nix our climate change law), and Proposition 26 (a measure to transform regulatory fees into taxes).  Essentially, the Whitman game plan is to give the sham appearance that she cares about our health, environmental resources and climate change impacts. In reality, she wants to enable corporations to continue to sicken people and damage natural resources while removing a key tool for corporate accountability.

Meg Whitman opposes Proposition 23, the ballot measure to nix our climate change law, and might hope that people won't notice that she also opposes our climate change law. Meg apparently does not want the voters to nix AB 32 because she plans to unilaterally nix our climate law by issuing a moratorium order on her first day as governor. Whitman also supports Prop 26, which would remove a key tool of corporate accountability for external costs of pollution and could be used for climate change impacts.

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The Week in Editorial Cartoons - Exorcism, InsaniTea, and Helping Jerry Brown

by JekyllnHyde

J.D. Crowe, Mobile Register

Bewitched

Christine O'Donnell has wiggled her nose and put a hex on the GOP establishment.  The novice Tea party candidate turned lots of heads, Linda Blair-like...But Karl Rove, the Warlock of W, has been taken aback by O'Donnell's victory.  Even he thinks this girl is bat$#!+ crazy and that the Republicans have been given a Tea Party roofie.

Personally, I think she's the best thing to happen to political satirists since her mentor, Sarah Palin. Republicans, on the other hand, are fingering the Yellow Pages looking for an exorcist. And maybe an antidote.

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Will Whitman Join Cal's Climate Zombie Prop 23 Supporters?

by RLMiller

Call me shocked, just shocked to find that there's gambling with California's future in this election.  

The state legislator responsible for placing Proposition 23, the anti-climate measure, on the ballot is...a climate zombie.  And one of Proposition 23's out of state dirty energy supporters, Koch Industries, Patient Zero of the climate zombie infection is holding a fundraiser tomorrow night for climate zombie Senate wannabe Carly Fiorina.

WWMWD?  Will Meg Whitman endorse Proposition 23 and its oil-soaked supporters, or will she join the forward-thinking California businesses who urge a no vote?  

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Why would we want to go back to the Stone Age?"

by citisven

In response to California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman calling for a one-year moratorium on AB 32, the landmark law which requires the state to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 25 percent by 2020, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, at a green jobs exhibit in March, had this to say:

Why would we want to go back to the Stone Age?

While it's good to know that there is still a leading Republican who hasn't gone into complete tea party meltdown, this exchange is important because after last week's death of the climate bill it points our attention to where the next big climate battle in this country is going to take place: KAH-lee-fo-nee-ah.

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California: Break the Oil Addiction Cycle

by Ella Arnold

For weeks on end we have watched our dependence on Big Oil cause the greatest environmental disaster this country has ever seen. We have been horrified by pictures like this. We have been saddened by the stories of all of the Gulf Coast residents who have lost their jobs and are now struggling to make ends meet. And we have been angered by the ineptitude of the BP executives who allowed this tragedy to happen and could not care less if the Gulf Coast ever recovers.

The attitude of corporate greed and environmental irresponsibility has once again reared its ugly head, this time in the state of California, where on Monday, a deceptive ballot initiative called the California Jobs Initiative qualified for the state's November ballot.

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