Jerry Brown’s Race for California Governor Stresses Climate Issues. By Colin Sullivan, Greenwire, 10/8/10. “Edmund G. ‘Jerry’ Brown is taking a third run at becoming the Golden State's governor… twenty-seven years after leaving his gubernatorial seat behind (to run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate… If Democrats can hold off a tough challenge from former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, the 72-year-old Democrat will start a third term in Sacramento next year facing a long list of problems... In Brown's long record of public service, one area stands out where he has arguably put in the most time and had the most effect: the environment. Brown for four decades has collided with oil companies, blocked offshore drilling, sought solutions to the state's water-supply puzzle, advocated for clean energy, pressed appliance and efficiency standards, barred nuclear development, and, most recently, taken his belief in greenhouse gas emissions limits to state courts."
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