2010 Legislative wrap-up

Sep 23, 2010

In the 2010 California Legislative session that recently ended, CLCV helped pass a variety of significant environmental legislation, including important wins on climate change and dangerous toxins.  Just as important, we successfully thwarted an unprecedented number of bad bills pushed by polluters, many of which tried to use the recession as an excuse to weaken enforcement of environmental protection. Read More >

Chemical Industry Targets California’s Proposed Plastic Bag Ban

Aug 27, 2010

Frankly, I’m a little surprised it took them this long. Maybe they thought, with all their money and influence, that a bill that would ban single-use plastic bags would never get as far as it has in the California legislature. But now they’re running scared.

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Warner Chabot: Big Oil's Hazardous Path to Repeal California's Clean Energy Law

Jun 23, 2010

The tragic Gulf oil spill is now "spilling over" into California's politics. It now threatens to undermine an oil industry funded proposition -- which just qualified for the November ballot as Prop 23 -- to kill California's landmark clean energy and air pollution law. Read More >

How the Gulf Spill Hits Home in the Golden State

Jun 7, 2010

The worst environmental catastrophe in our nation’s history is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, making two things more clear than ever to Californians: we must transition away from oil and develop cleaner forms of energy, and we must elect leaders here at home who will work to make this transition possible. Read More >

Who Needs More Government Regulations?

Jun 2, 2010

Campaign season expands the chorus of voices shouting to anyone who’ll listen that America is over-regulated, that regulations hurt business, that regulations kill jobs. Not that the chorus only sings this song during election years. Corporations spend billions of dollars trying to persuade the California Legislature and the Congress that regulations are the apogee of evil. Corporations spend millions in California on candidates that will sing the same song. They spend millions more on initiatives to relieve the burden on their profits. Read More >

Creating National Oceanic Policy

May 11, 2010

On May 11 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CLCV's Chief Executive Officer Warner Chabot moderated a panel entitled "Creating National Ocean Policy: Working to Protect Our Oceans and Resources."

In addition to Warner, who has also served as the Vice President of the Ocean Conservancy, the distinguished panel included: Read More >

Arnold Flip-Flops on Offshore Oil Drilling

May 3, 2010

For years now the proposed expanded offshore oil drilling project along Santa Barbara's coast that Governor Schwarzenegger has been trying to get passed (aka Tranquillion Ridge) has been a controversial and divisive issue even amongst the environmental community. I'll spare you the details, but the important consideration here is that the environmental movement has long taken a backseat to the pro-corporate mentality brought to you by Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr. Read More >

 
 
 

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