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Dec 15, 2009
What is $38 million worth?

What can you do with $38 million in a single year? You can clean up the polluted and undrinkable brown water that comes out of the taps in the City of Maywood and still have $30 million left over.  You can fund the entire California Conservation Corps and have a $3 million left over. You can even fund half of California’s state parks… or you can fund two campaigns in the Republican primary for governor (well, some of it anyway).

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Dec 14, 2009
Add 3 More C’s to Climate Change: Copenhagen, CA, and Cap & Trade

The world is waiting to see what’s going to come from discussions among our leaders in Copenhagen on the most pressing issue of our time – climate change.  Have you thought about what the U.S. is bringing to the table?

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Dec 10, 2009
CLCV releases 2009 California Environmental Scorecard

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Dec 9, 2009
Krekorian Wins and Creates Vacancy

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Dec 7, 2009
“Right now, your leaders are deciding your future at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen.”

Billed as the “most important meeting of our lives,” and “the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming,” the United Nations Copenhagen climate change summit is taking place from today, December 7 through December 18th. Representatives of 192 nations are gathering in response to calls for a global climate deal that reverses dangerous climate change.

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Dec 1, 2009
Creating — and Honoring — Champions for the Environment

On December 2nd, at the 16th annual Environmental Leadership Awards Gala in Los Angeles, the California League of Conservation Voters honored several dedicated leaders who are nurturing the next generation of environmental champions. Our event theme, “From Schoolhouse to Statehouse,” recognized the incredible individuals and groups working at all levels—in neighborhoods, in schools, and in politics—to involve young people in protecting and enhancing California’s natural beauty and heritage.

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Nov 25, 2009
Giving thanks for high-profile environmental threats

It’s almost Thanksgiving, and in the spirit of the holiday, I wanted to thank Meg Whitman for her alarming statements about California’s pioneering global warming law. In case anyone missed it: in her September 16th opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury News, Meg Whitman said the following about California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32):

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Nov 19, 2009
How Much Does It Cost To Bypass CEQA?

Our friends over at Protect Consumer Justice have a good story on how much it cost Ed Roski in lobbying expenses to get the Legislature and the Governor to quash a  California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) legal action so that billionaire Roski could get a stadium built for a football team he hopes to buy. 

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Nov 16, 2009
What happened to Tom Campbell?

OK, so I’ve “only” been following California politics (well, politics in general) for the last 8 years. That being said, I’m hoping that someone out there can help explain what happened to gubernatorial candidate Tom Campbell.

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Nov 13, 2009
Doug Ring, A Friend Is Gone

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