Posted on 03/22/2011 9:41:20 AM PDT by Nachum
During the 2010 midterm elections, California voters rejected Prop. 23 – a provision that would have postponed the implementation of the state’s cap and trade program until unemployment was down for five consistent years. But in a ruling published on Monday, a San Francisco superior court judge went a step further and halted the entire program, arguing the California Air Resources Board (CARB) was “unable to make an informed decision” because it had failed to consider other alternatives.
In his 35-page ruling, Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith wrote that the cap and trade plan “fails to provide meaningful information or discussion about the carbon fee (or carbon tax) alternative in the scant two paragraphs devoted to this important alternative.”
Goldsmith went on to write, “The brief fifteen line reference to the carbon fee alternative consists almost entirely of bare conclusions justifying the cap and trade decision. Informative analysis is absent.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Nice!
Another nail in the coffin that will be known as the greatest swindle in human history, Man Made Global Warming.
So they will get a carbon tax instead.
B.A.D.
But Another Arnold Debacle
Cool!
Not only do we have an article with an honest judge in it, but a person in California in high places that actually has common sense.
There may be hope for CA yet.
Those damned activist judges! </sarc>
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