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Battle over Calif. emissions law takes shape as warring parties reveal funding sources
The campaign to put suspension of California's climate change law before voters in November started taking shape this week as warring parties revealed key sources of funding and traded barbs over the nature of their financial support. Opposing the climate law are a Texas-based refining company that operates in California and the anti-tax Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. In documents filed with the California Secretary of State, a group calling itself the California Jobs Initiative listed Valero Energy Corp.'s director of government affairs in California, Scott Folwarkow, and Jon Coupal, president of the tax group, as its leading officers. Go to story #1