Oil

Valero Energy and Koch Industries subsidiary Flint Hills, neither of which are based in California, have invested millions in the industry attempt to suspend California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32).  Texas-based Tesoro Corporation, another oil refiner, is also heavily invested in the fight.

As dirty energy influence peddlars are pulling the usual economic apocalypse arguments, a recently-released assessment concluded that not following California's plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions and implement clean energy would be the worse economic option. 

Passing Proposition 23 would simply leave California more polluted and less prosperous, while oil executives and lobbyists would continue to rejoice at their personal profit at the expense of a healthy planet and healthy people.

The full story can be found on the L.A. Times blog, and more at DeSmogBlog.

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"A 2008 Chevron blowout appears in hindsight to have been a rehearsal for Deepwater Horizon and its design problems. Like BP, Chevron was in the final stages of drilling a well aboard Transocean rig Discoverer Deep Seas. Because of the blowout, drillers lost 500,000 gallons of drilling mud into the earth below the wellhead, and spilled 293 gallons onto the ocean floor."

Full article: "Deadly Gulf blowouts persist"

-Houston Chronicle, July 20, 2010

"Chevron Using Six Public Relations FIrms To Discredit Indigenous Groups In $27.3 Billion Environmental Case In Ecuador"

-Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources, February 10, 2010

"Chevron's Man in Ecuador: Felon, Drug-Trafficker, and Liar, Oh My!"

-Huffington Post, October 31, 2009