ENVIRONMENTAL, CLEAN-ENERGY INDUSTRY GROUPS DIVIDED OVER PROP. 80

Environmental groups and clean energy industry organizations are divided over Proposition 80 -- the ballot measure that aims to re-regulate energy service providers -- primarily over the initiative's potential effect on renewable resource generation in the coming years. The split between normally like-minded groups not only underscores the dispute over the measure's renewable energy impact, but may also reveal fundamentally different philosophies when it comes to government regulation and oversight of business, sources said. Prop. 80, the Electric Consumer Protection...