Shielding law on global warming top priority for environmental activists

California has become the primary battleground for environmental activists this election cycle thanks to a ballot initiative that would stymie a first-in-the-nation cap on greenhouse-gas emissions. The Proposition 23 measure would suspend California’s global warming law — which calls for a reduction in emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020 — unless the state’s unemployment rate drops below 5.5 percent. Currently, the state’s unemployment rate is 12.4 percent, the third highest in the nation. Protecting California’s global warming law has become a top priority for environmental activists who are still smarting over the defeat of comprehensive energy legislation in Congress this year. If the law survives the ballot challenge, it could become a model for other states to emulate. “We are watching this on a national level,” said Chris Youngmark, deputy director of a local California United Steelworkers, which opposes Prop 23. “It seems like everything starts in California and moves eastward.”...more

So the Steelworkers Union opposes Prop 23.

That's funny given this 2008 Reuters story:

The biggest challenge for the global steel industry is combating climate change and reducing its footprint as the biggest industrial contributor to carbon dioxide emissions, a senior industry figure said on Monday.

"Fight global warming - use less steel" is now apparently the steelworkers motto.