Business leaders lobby California lawmakers for less red tape

California has too many regulations. Taxes and fees are too high. And the state needs to slow down its rush to curtail oil and gas production in its headlong race to fight global warming.
That was the message Southern and Central California business leaders delivered in Sacramento this month during their second annual lobbying effort at the state Capitol.
While not new, such traditional positions put members of the Business Federations of Los Angeles and the Central Valley at all odds with