Chevron-Funded Schwarzenegger Sells Out The Environment

[Canuckistanian]

From Thinkprogress:

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) repeatedly touts the environment as his top priority — he even changed his official campaign color to green.

Yet Schwarzenegger recently announced his opposition to the Clean Alternative Energy Initiative, a landmark ballot measure that would finance alternative energy research and development by imposing a tax on oil companies. (The initiative is backed by dozens of California green groups, and would boost the state’s economy according to UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.)

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And which oil company is the #1 donor to the group opposing the clean energy initiative? Chevron, which has given a whopping $3,740,000, more than three times the amount of the next 14 donors combined.


http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/28/schwarzenegger-environment/

[BayCityProgressive]

1. I hope it passes