This measure would suspend California’s global warming law until the state unemployment rate is 5.5% or lower for a year.

Support

If Prop. 23 doesn’t suspend California’s global warming law, “electricity rates could go up by as much as 60 percent,” says Anita Mangels with the Yes on 23 campaign. This would “disproportionately affect low-income communities.” The measure would

• Save more than a million jobs because businesses won’t have to cut costs to afford compliance with global warming law.
  
  
• Hold the line on energy costs for struggling families.
  
  
• Maintain California’s tough air- and water-quality laws.

Supporters: Yes on 23 (www.yeson23.com), California Small Business Association, California State Firefighters Association, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.

Opposition

“Proposition 23’s attack on California’s clean air laws will result in more health-damaging pollution emissions, more asthma attacks for children, and more missed school days due to respiratory illnesses,” says Bonnie Holmes-Gen with the American Lung Association in California. The measure would

• Effectively repeal the landmark clean energy and clean air law.
  
  
• Create more air pollution and threaten public health—especially in low-income communities disproportionately located near polluting industries.

Opponents: No on 23 (www.StopDirtyEnergyProp.com), American Lung Association in California, California League of Women Voters, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California.