http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/04/BALG10G2RL.DTL

Although the state budget could reach a deficit of $20 billion this year, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is committed to implementing the anti-global warming bill AB32 he signed two years ago.

The governor's latest budget proposal calls for no fewer than 211 greenhouse-gas busters to be sprinkled throughout state government, at an annual cost of $55.4 million.

That's 77 more greenies than are on the payroll this year.

The new jobs range from $36,000-a-year accounting technicians to $102,000-a-year attorneys to draft and enforce green regulations.

Economists have largely focused on the private sector's green job growth, but this is one of the first examples of how local/state/federal government will also experience such a growth.

San Francisco Chronicle; May 4, 2008

Submitted by B. Shapiro