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Air pollution permits back on track in Southern California
California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is working to burnish his green legacy in the Golden State. But one of his latest moves to lift a hold on air pollution permit applications is not likely to make environmentalists happy.
The governor signed a bill late Sunday that allows the agency regulating air pollution along California’s southern coast to start issuing more than 1,200 applications frozen by a state court decision in 2008.
Schwarzenegger signed the bill the same day he approved two measures benefiting the state’s solar power industry.
Environmentalists may call the governor’s actions two steps forward, one step back.
