What they don’t say much about is that our air quality is improving precisely because of tightening environmental standards, that counties have seen and will continue to see property-tax windfalls as new alternative-energy projects come online, that entrepreneurs have already created hundreds of thousands of jobs in the fields of solar power, wind power and energy efficiency, and that those entrepreneurs require the certainty and stability that AB 32 guarantees in order to justify new investment.
California has an estimated 12,000 clean-energy businesses up and running now. Taking our efforts to the next level should yield even greater results.
Compare the 12,000 clean-energy businesses in California to the untold number of fishing, tourism, and other businesses that depend on them destroyed by Big Oil on the Gulf Coast.
