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Sacramento Bee: President Barack Obama's controversial former "green jobs czar" Van Jones said efforts to roll back California's landmark climate change law will not only hurt Sacramento's budding clean-tech sector but also open the door for competing cities and states to wrest away green jobs and businesses.
Jones, author of a book called "The Green Collar Economy" is in town today to speak at Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's monthly green initiative meeting. He will discuss the economic fallout of Proposition 23, which seeks to suspend the state's greenhouse gas reduction law.
"It's like taking a sledgehammer to a job-creating machine," Jones said in a telephone interview Monday.
"It sends an awful message, and other states are going to take advantage of it" to attract green companies, he said.
Jones, now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., praised Johnson for bringing various interest groups – unions, businesses and environmentalists – together to boost Sacramento's green profile.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/20/2901043/former-green-jobs-czar-van-jones.html#ixzz0uChx9shy
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