Los Angeles voters yesterday rejected the Green Energy Good Jobs ballot initiative (AKA Measure B), according unofficial results from the city clerk’s office.
The plan, which failed by about 1,000 votes, would have led to the installation of thousands of solar panels on rooftops and parking lots throughout the city. It would have required the city’s energy utility to produce 400 megawatts of solar power by 2014, but it also would have required the utility’s unionized job force to do all the work, which opponents saw as a bald power grab.
We’ve reported on the plan’s promises and perils, and on the campaigns for and against it. Stay tuned for more.
