Recasting AB 32 as a job creator is political snake oil and breathtakingly naive

CMTA released a new report on Wednesday -- The Truth About Green Jobs and California -- on how policies adopted for the purpose of growing green jobs can have counterproductive affects on the economy and cause overall job loss rather than job growth.  The report was written by the California Lutheran University's Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF) and is co-authored by CERF Director Bill Watkins and Joel Kotkin, Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University.

Of late, AB32 is being promoted as a job creation tool rather than a costly environmental regulatory scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.   Recasting AB 32 as an economic development strategy is breathtakingly naive.

California should be the home of clean tech innovation and manufacturing.  For that to happen, our state should focus on creating permanent green jobs, rather than short term jobs that survive only with government subsidies and damage the state's larger economy.  The real solution to solving California's economic woes is to restore a healthy business climate by cutting job killer regulations and allowing the demand for green products to be translated into jobs in California rather than jobs in Texas and China.

Take the time to read through this report to help California get this thing right.

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