Here's why Arnold Schwarzenegger is sounding the alarm on climate change
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LOS ANGELES - Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is joining forces with an influential Democrat to tackle one of California's biggest problems: pollution from cars and trucks.
The transportation sector is California's largest source of planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution - and emissions are trending up, not down. But Schwarzenegger and Kevin de Leon, the former state Senate leader who is now running for a Los Angeles City Council seat, see an opportunity to clear the air.
Schwarzenegger and De Leon are launching an initiative with environmental activists and researchers at USC and UCLA to study how local governments can speed the adoption of cleaner transportation options and to promote more aggressive action at the state level. Reducing
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