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Jerry Brown Calls State's Global Warming Law the Key Difference Between Him and Meg Whitman. San Jose Mercury News, July 30, 2010. "Calling the issue the defining difference between himself and Republican Meg Whitman in the governor's race, Democrat Jerry Brown gave an impassioned defense of California's landmark global warming law... Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, has called for a one-year moratorium on implementation of the law, which is due to take effect in 2012. Her stance puts her on the opposite side of many Silicon Valley companies, including eBay... Hammering the global warming issue, Brown said he strongly opposes Proposition 23 on the November ballot, his first public stance on the measure. The proposition, on which Whitman hasn't yet taken a position, would suspend AB 32 until the state's unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent for at least a year. In the past two decades, that has only occurred three times. Brown's strong statements on the global warming issue came a day after the Public Policy Institute of California released its annual survey of attitudes on the environment. The poll found that two in three state residents still support AB 32's requirement to cut greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by 2020."