Big Vote Against Prop.23 Sends a Statement About California's Commitment To Environmental Laws

With 93 percent of the vote counted this morning, the biggest landslide on the California ballot was the vote against a measure to suspend the state’s landmark global warming law.

Proposition 23 would have suspended the law known as AB 32, which calls for California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The ballot measure would have put AB 32 on ice until the state’s unemployment rate, currently 12.4 percent, fell to 5.5 percent for four consecutive calendar quarters.