Forget the Thrilla in Manilla, California is the epicenter of the fight of the century, at least when it comes down to the battle between fossil fuels and clean energy tech. A new coalition of California clean tech companies, labor organizations, community groups and environmental has just launched an effort called The California Apollo Program to counter the flood of out-of-state money behind recent assaults on the state’s signature climate law, AB 32.
While the out-of-staters naturally claim that AB 32 is bad for the economy, The Apollo Program (which was kicked off by The Apollo Alliance, a green jobs coalition) lays out the facts: after tanking along with everyone else in 2008, the California economy has grown by 5 percent, and it leads the country in green jobs creation, to say nothing of new green businesses, patents, and venture capital investment. So, who are these know-it-all out-of-towners?
