Editorial: The feds can curb a foolish California water giveaway
Editorial: The feds can curb a foolish California water giveaway
As the nation’s state Senate prepares for what promises to be one of its most momentous votes—a debate over whether to overturn the state’s landmark cap and trade climate and energy laws—it’s worth recalling that both houses of the state Legislature could kill the cap and trade law in a single legislative session.
It’s also worth recalling that, as recently as Wednesday night, many of the senators who are currently considering overturning California’s landmark climate measure, dubbed AB32, didn’t know who they were debating on the floor.
In fact, many were unaware the California law they were debating was the nation’s toughest carbon-pricing climate and energy law and arguably the world’s most important regulatory climate rule that has been put in place to save the planet from catastrophic climate disruptions.
But, like many a Californian, they were not aware of that, because the state’s major media were not telling them about it.
One major reason, that’s the truth, is because the mainstream media are dominated to a large extent by the Republican Party in California. And the party’s entire governing strategy has been to make California as hard to govern as it is possible to be. The party’s top political donors, in fact, have been actively working to ensure a repeal of AB32.
But there is a better reason than blind party loyalty for why the major media have been silent when it comes to California’s cap and trade law.
The reason is that, as recently as Wednesday night, the major media were largely ignoring the state Senate’s debate over whether to overturn the cap and trade legislation.
The reason is likely because, based entirely on recent public opinion polling, the public is overwhelmingly opposed to the cap and trade law.
The most recent public opinion polling of AB 32 was released Tuesday by the