Stop the Dirty Energy Proposition! Vote NO on Prop. 23

The clean energy economy is growing nationally, and California has been a leader.  But if the Dirty Energy Proposition passes, California will lose hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars to other states. Since 2005 statewide green jobs have grown at a rate 10 times faster than total job growth.  The Dirty Energy Proposition would turn back this job growth.

Every year, air pollution in California contributes to 19,000 deaths and skyrocketing rates of asthma, cancer, and other diseases.  The Dirty Energy Proposition would allow this air pollution to increase, degrading public health and harming our communities.

California climate legislation requires that big polluters begin paying for their pollution.  These funds could be used to create a Community Benefits Fund that could amount to billions of dollars for our state.  The Dirty Energy Proposition would end this fund, let polluters get off scot-free, and take away billions of dollars that could be used to create jobs, clean up the environment, and protect vulnerable communities. (Learn more: Download AB 1405, which establishes the Community Benefits Fund).

Climate change and environmental degradation hurt poor communities and communities of color hardest. Death and disease caused by pollution and climate change, like asthma, cancer rates, and heat-related deaths, are highest for poor people and people of color.  By killing the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and keeping us dependent on fossil fuels, the Dirty Energy Proposition would increase electricity costs in California by 33%, a burden that will be hardest to bear for low-income Californians. Finally, communities of color have the most to gain from new economic opportunity in the clean energy economy.  But the Dirty Energy Proposition will kill this job growth and investment opportunity. (Learn more: Download "Why People of Color Must Defeat the Valero Oil Initiative" from the Ella Baker Center).

California’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 is the nation's most comprehensive legislation on cutting carbon pollution and growing the clean energy economy.  The Dirty Energy Proposition would kill this legislation, setting back the best model we’ve got for addressing the climate crisis.