Vote for the Gibson Resolution
10-18-2015
Nine
years ago, California legislators had the wisdom and courage to pass a landmark
climate change bill – the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Assembly Bill
32). Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed it, and four years later, California
voters decisively defeated a proposition to suspend it.
Last
week, thanks to Andrea Castillo’s article in the Oct. 7 Bee, we learned that the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will support a local project to convert food and
agricultural waste to biomethane, “a low greenhouse gas-emitting fuel.” This
local program will annually divert more than 65,000 tons of carbon dioxide
because of California’s determination to apply global-warming solutions.
Now
we need California’s congressional representatives to promote federal action on
climate change. For starters, they can sign the Republican-authored Gibson
Resolution (House Resolution 424). This non-binding resolution recognizes the
government’s responsibility to deal with climate change, which the resolution
says will “saddle future generations with costly economic and environmental
burdens.”
By
signing onto the Gibson Resolution, the Valley’s representatives will show true
leadership on the great issue of our time.
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