Pundits can’t figure out why moderate Democrats in the Central Valley and the Inland Empire aren’t jumping for joy at the chance to extend and strengthen Assembly Bill 32 — better known as the greenhouse-gas emissions law — beyond 2020. For starters it might have something to with the state’s least wealthy regions — including the San Joaquin Valley of which the Congressional Research Office has identified most of it as the country’s new Appalachia — would proportionately pay the biggest price. The focus of the discomfort of the moderate Democrats of California’s interior is the greenhouse bill proposed by State Senator Fran Pavely, who authored AB32 back when she was an Assembly member.
SJ Valley may go to hell, but air will be clean
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