California's Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, has assigned numbers for the 11 ballot initiatives already qualified fro the November general election. The high-speed rail bond measure won the top of the ballot spot -- it's Proposition 1.

Here's the full announcement from Bowen's office.

The California Air Resources Board on Thursday released its draft -- or "scoping" -- plan to implement AB 32, the landmark greenhouse gas initiative launched in 2006. High-speed rail is one of the measures CARB is counting on to meet AB 32's ambitious goals. Small wonder, since a conservative estimate puts the reduction in greenhouse gases from high-speed rail at around 22 billion pounds of carbon dioxide each year.