-KCRW-FM, Which Way L.A.?, September 9, 2010 Host Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww100909prop_23_ab_32_and_th
“I think the answer is nobody really knows for sure. But what we do know is that there would be some immediate loss of jobs…. I think there is also this ripple effect: California has been a leader in the climate area. If California starts to do an about face, that is going to affect other states in the US and that is going to affect efforts in other parts of the world.”
-E&E Climate Wire, September 10, 2010 by Colin Sullivan
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/09/10/4
“Since most significant climate policy efforts in California are linked to [the climate law], its suspension could lead to legal and regulatory confusion,” said UC Berkeley law professor and co-author of the analysis Daniel Farber, who believes the referendum would freeze climate regulations indefinitely because it is tied to unemployment dropping to 5.5 percent for a full year.
-The Sacramento Bee, September 10, 2010 by Rick Daysog
http://bit.ly/dmQVMM
The Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley Law School also said the rollback initiative, Proposition 23, would benefit oil and power companies while increasing regulatory burdens to real estate developers and auto makers. “It adds significant uncertainty at a time when we have a lot of economic uncertainty,” the report’s co-author Dan Farber said.