[Source: SCAQMD] Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger was sworn in [Friday, December 6th] as the newest member of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) Governing Board, replacing Supervisor Janice Hahn as the County of Los Angeles’s representative. Barger was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in November Read More…
Tag: environment
Environmental groups call for government to label ‘forever chemicals’
[Source: Newsweek] Eighty-two environmental organizations expressed concern on Tuesday that Senator Jim Inhofe had stripped language about so-called “forever chemicals” suspected to affect 400 U.S. military sites from the National Defense Authorization Bill. In a “skinny” NDAA bill submitted last month, Inhofe, the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, removed language regarding pervasive Per-and Read More…
Environmental groups are getting rich under Trump
[Source: Washington Examiner] Most major environmental groups have received millions more in donations since President Trump took office. The Trump administration has rolled back dozens of environmental regulations that have burdened agriculture and industry as part of its deregulatory agenda. Environmental groups such as Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club are some of the loudest critics Read More…
Newsom plans to veto bill that would have blocked Trump’s rollback of endangered species protections
[Source: Los Angeles Times] Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to veto a bill passed by California lawmakers that would have allowed the state to keep strict Obama-era endangered species protections and water pumping restrictions for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Newsom’s intentions, confirmed by his spokesman on Saturday, comes less than 24 hours after state lawmakers Read More…
California’s latest descent into liberal madness – Berkeley bans natural gas
[Source: FoxNews] From sanctuary cities to brutally high taxes, California is the undisputed center of gravity for today’s far-left. If you want to see how liberal policies would look on a national level, you don’t have to imagine it. You can just look at the thousands fleeing the once-great state. In the latest chapter of California’s descent Read More…
Berkeley becomes first U.S. city to ban natural gas in new homes
[Source: San Francisco Chronicle] Berkeley has become the first city in the nation to ban the installation of natural gas lines in new homes. The City Council on Tuesday night unanimously voted to ban gas from new low-rise residential buildings starting Jan. 1. It’s not the first time Berkeley has passed pioneering health or environmental Read More…
Governor Newsom champions measures that would take us back to medieval times
[Source: Fox & Hounds] Governor Newsom is vocally supportive of the Green New Deal that would take us back to medieval times. The Governor’s statement on July 12th was scary. He is looking into putting a moratorium on fracking for oil and wants to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. The Governor seems to Read More…
AB 161 is a waste of effort, it should be rejected
[Source: Los Angeles Daily News] Because lawmakers in Sacramento seem not to think they have anything better to do, they’ll be holding hearings soon on a new bill to force businesses to be digital receipt compliant. The legislation, Assembly Bill 161, has, as usual, the best of intentions. Paper receipts, of course, consume energy to Read More…
Despite sharp growth in electric cars, vehicle emissions keep rising
[Source: Julie Cart] It is tempting to employ any number of puns when considering California’s transportation future: The state is at a crossroads, its policies could run out of gas, dangerous curves lie ahead. But keeping in mind that the state’s climate policies demand the wholesale electrification of transportation, here’s another: California must reinvent not Read More…