Barack Obama's green agenda crushed at the ballot box | Warmist Suzanne Goldenberg | guardian.co.uk

With a slew of new climate change deniers entering Congress, Barack Obama's environmental ambitions are now dead
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With 95% of precincts reporting, some 61% of Californians voted against a measure brought by Texas oil refiners, Tesoro and Valero, and the oil billionaire Koch brothers that would indefinitely halt a 2006 law mandating ambitious cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

"We are beating Texas again," Schwarzenegger told supporters at an election night party.

"Even though they spent millions and millions of dollars, today the people will make up their mind and speak loud and clear that California's environment is not for sale."
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But it was an expensive win, with opponents of Proposition 23 spending $31m to assure its defeat. The oil companies put up more than $10.
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Obama in interviews on the evening of the elections, admitted there was no change of sweeping climate and energy legislation in the remaining two years of his term.