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California Prop. 1A
Would partially fund a high-speed train linking Southern California with the Bay Area and the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley.
No
Backgrounder
Video about 1A
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California Prop. 2
Would prohibit the confinement of livestock in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, stand up, lie down, or extend their wings and limbs.
No
Article
Backgrounder
Update: Farm industry upset over passage
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California Prop. 7
Would require utilities to generate 20 percent of their power from renewable energy sources by 2010, 40 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2025.
No
Backgrounder
Anti-7 op-ed
Pro-7 op-ed
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California Prop. 10
Would authorize $5 billion in bonds to be dispersed as cash payments to purchasers of certain high-fuel-economy and alternative-fuel vehicles, or to be invested in renewable energy R&D, production, and education.
No
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San Francisco Prop. H
Would require 51 percent of the city's electricity be sourced from "renewable sources" by 2017, 75 percent by 2030, and 100 percent -- or all that is "technologically feasible or practicable" -- by 2040.
No
Backgrounder
More background & a pro-H video
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Colorado Amendment 58
Would raise taxes on oil and gas companies operating in Colorado and allocate the revenues to college scholarships, wildlife conservation, renewable energy, energy-impacted areas, and water treatment.
No
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Colorado Amendment 52
A counter-initiative to Amendment 58, it would maintain the present tax structure and redirect a majority of the funds presently going to the Department of Natural Resources -- for mineral extraction, clean energy, and low-income energy assistance programs -- to a new transportation trust fund to ease congestion on the I-70 corridor. If both ballot measures pass, Amendment 52 would supersede 58, as 52 is a constitutional amendment while 58 is a statutory change.
No
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Florida Amendment 4
Would institute a property-tax exemption for property placed under permanent conservation protection.
No
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Minnesota Clean Water, Wildlife, Cultural Heritage, and Natural Areas amendment
Would raise the state sales tax by three-eighths of 1 percent in order to increase state funding for natural resource protection and cultural heritage programs.
No
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Missouri Prop. C
Would require 15 percent of the state's electricity come from clean energy sources by 2021, and would require that utilities raise consumer rates no more than 1 percent per year to pay for the renewable energy.
No
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Ohio Issue 2
Would authorize the state to borrow $400 million for environmental conservation.
No
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Ohio Issue 3
Would create a constitutional amendment to protect property rights and rights to the reasonable use of water.
No
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Washington Prop. 1
Would provide $18 billion to support mass-transit services and expand light rail into several communities south of Seattle.
No
Backgrounder
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Washington I-985
Would open high-occupancy vehicle lanes to all traffic during specified hours, require traffic light synchronization, increase roadside assistance funding, and dedicate certain taxes, fines, tolls, and other revenues to traffic-flow purposes.
No
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Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.) [UPDATED]
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