California Ballot Measures Reduce Global Warming Pollution
UCS supported California Proposition 1A, which passed in Novermber 2008 and will start funding construction of a California high-speed train system. Once built, the train system is expected not only to ease growing automobile and plane traffic, but most importantly, to reduce emissions of global warming pollution and save energy overall.
Based on our thorough analysis, UCS came out against California Proposition 10, which would have thrown nearly ten billion taxpayer dollars into a program promoting natural gas and other transportation fuels that could have achieved little or no reductions in smog or global warming pollution. Fortunately, voters did their homework and defeated the misguided propostion.
