(Photo: Li Ang and Bill Magavern) By Li Ang I was mildly shocked Thursday morning when I came to the office and found Bill Magavern in sportswear. This gentleman, who is the policy director for Coalition for Clean Air, has been in business suits since we first met in his office more than two weeks … Read more
By Rocky Rushing Proposition 6 on California’s November ballot is a politically motivated and opportunistic attempt to repeal provisions of Senate Bill 1 of 2017 to repair California’s crumbling transportation infrastructure. Voters should respond with a resounding no. Yes, SB 1 is imperfect. It contains a “dirty-truck loophole” large enough to drive a smoke-belching 18-wheeler … Read more
In today’s news cycle chock-full of sound and fury, humanity’s ongoing climate crisis gets pushed from the headlines. However, over the past few weeks, very troubling news about Earth’s climate broke. Simply put, we are running out of time to avert climate disaster. And while climate change (especially of this magnitude) will adversely affect everyone, … Read more
California always makes headlines for its dedication to clean energy. Just last month Governor Brown signed SB 100, setting a target for emissions-free electricity generation by 2045. The state’s resilient commitment to climate science is heard around the world. But these stories mask a painful truth: the state had a historically bad summer of air … Read more
By Bill Magavern As a delegate to last week’s Global Climate Action Summit, I had a chance to hear from eminent climate scientists, elected officials, advocates and business leaders. One event closely tied to our California policy work was an evening ride on San Francisco Bay on the Enhydra, a plug-in hybrid ferry making its … Read more
Originally posted on Eric Tepletz’s blog “People have three budgets: a time budget, a complexity budget, and a hope budget,” Al Gore explained to us during a three-day Climate Reality Leadership Corps training last week in Los Angeles. When you are conveying the difficult message of climate change and what needs to be done about it, you must … Read more
Photo Credit: The Nation By Rocky Rushing There are 120 elected members of the California Legislature. They are in session nine months out of the year, deciding the fate of thousands of bills. Committee hearings and floor sessions of the Legislature’s two official houses – the Senate and Assembly – are generally live-streamed on the … Read more
For immediate release. Re-posted from Center for Biological Diversity Ruling Halts World Logistics Center’s Initiative Use to Evade Environmental Review MORENO VALLEY, Calif.— An appeals court has dealt another major blow to a plan to build the largest warehouse complex in California. Environmental-justice and conservation groups yesterday won a California appellate court lawsuit against the Moreno Valley City … Read more