[NormsRevenge]

Núñez slams governor on emission law
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/17/BAG7ULQPOA1.DTL
Mark Martin

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(10-17) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and some environmental groups charged Monday that an executive order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sign today undermines an agreement the governor struck with Democrats on the state's landmark global warming law.

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Núñez said that the executive order gives more power to the executive branch than the law calls for and that the governor's emphasis on a market-based approach to lowering greenhouse gas emissions ignored other aspects of the law. He suggested the governor was reinterpreting the law based on proposals he had suggested to lawmakers during negotiations over the legislation this year but that had been rejected by the Legislature.

"You can't rewrite a law through executive order," said Núñez, D-Los Angeles, who carried the bill. "This is totally inconsistent with the intent of the law and with the way that it is written."

Schwarzenegger spent Monday in New York, where he met with Gov. George Pataki and announced his intent to set up programs with Northeastern states and the European Union that would allow California companies to trade emissions credits with companies in Europe and the Northeast.

The governor also was in New York for a campaign fundraiser hosted by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Administration officials said the executive order, which the governor announced Monday but can't sign until today, when he returns to California, was intended to clarify the legislation, AB32. Linda Adams, Schwarzenegger's secretary of the EPA, said she would be coordinating many aspects of the new law but that the state's Air Resources Board would ultimately adopt rules governing the state's target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.

[calcowgirl]

Thanks. I was just going to go figure out what you meant by "friendship ring". I guess the honeymoon is over?

Núñez said that the executive order gives more power to the executive branch than the law calls for and that the governor's emphasis on a market-based approach to lowering greenhouse gas emissions ignored other aspects of the law

[calcowgirl]

"You can't rewrite a law through executive order," said Núñez, D-Los Angeles, who carried the bill. "This is totally inconsistent with the intent of the law and with the way that it is written."

Administration officials said the executive order, which the governor announced Monday but can't sign until today, when he returns to California, was intended to clarify the legislation...

The legislation was so vague you could run a million hummers through it. Yet another reason it should not have passed.