[Source: San Francisco Chronicle] A new effort to revise California’s landmark Proposition 13 would boost taxes on large corporations and businesses, but opponents are complaining that’s almost an afterthought in the state attorney general’s new title and summary of the proposed initiative. The official statement, which was released Thursday by Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Read More…
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Courts say EPA not doing enough to fight cross-state smog
[Source: The Hill] Federal judges dealt a blow to the Trump administration late Tuesday, finding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hasn’t done enough to limit cross-state air pollution. A panel of judges for the D.C. Circuit Court, which includes a Trump appointee, ordered the EPA to come up with a new plan for how to Read More…
San Francisco pushes back as Trump claims city waterways have ‘tremendous pollution’
[Source: The Hill] The city of San Francisco is pushing back against claims from the Trump administration that it isn’t doing enough to treat the stormwater it pumps back into its bay. The city’s actions come as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent the city a notice Wednesday saying it is violating the Clean Water Act Read More…
EPA cites San Francisco for ‘water pollution’, fulfilling Trump’s threat
[Source: The Guardian] The Trump administration issued an environmental notice of violation to San Francisco on Wednesday, fulfilling Donald Trump’s threat to cite the city over an inaccurate claim that linked water pollution with the city’s homeless crisis. Trump said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would issue a notice because the city allowed needles and waste Read More…
California has one of worst lawsuit climates in country, business survey shows
[Source: CalChamber] California has one of the worst lawsuit climates in the country, affecting companies’ decisions on whether to do business in the state, according to a recent survey of senior U.S. business executives. The state comes almost last in the overall national ranking, at No. 48, in the 2019 Lawsuit Climate Survey: Ranking the States, conducted 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…
California lawmakers fail to pass sweeping plastic pollution plan
[Source: The Mercury News] In a setback for environmental groups, California lawmakers early Saturday morning ended the 2019 legislative session without passing two bills that would have been the most ambitious effort in the nation to reduce the massive amounts of plastic pollution that are washing into oceans, rivers and lakes around the world. The 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…
Retiring worn-out wind turbines is a wasteful process
[Source: Blaze Media] Wind energy has a big waste problem. Those spinning blades on the horizon aren’t as green as you may think. A story from Harvest Public Media delved into what happens when those big turbines that dot horizons all over the United States reach the end of their usefulness and have to be scrapped. Read More…