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Article: Californians Form Coalition Against New Job-Killing Regulation.
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- Entertainment Newsweekly
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- August 21, 2009
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Today, consumer advocates, small businesses, trade associations, and anti-tax groups launched a new coalition -- Californians for Smart Energy -- to demonstrate the widespread opposition to the California Energy Commission's (CEC) unnecessary and job-killing proposal to set arbitrary limits on television electricity usage.
The CEC's regulation would effectively ban the sale of 25 percent of current big screen TV models and 100 percent of plasma TVs larger than 60 inches in California. According to a Resolution Economics, LLC study, the CEC's regulation would cost California $50 million a year in lost tax revenues and destroy 4,600 jobs. Small business owners ...