Stop the Dirty Energy Proposition: Vote No on Prop 23

On October 10th, a day of global action to work on the climate crisis, Santa Cruz residents rallied next to a Valero gas station on Highway 1 / Mission Street urging people to vote no on California's proposition 23. If it passes on November 2nd, it will suspend California's Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. AB 32 requires that by 2020 the state's greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 1990 levels, a roughly 25% reduction under business as usual estimates. ((i))