When Somebody Yells "Tort Reform" Think About Your Health

Jul 7, 2010

Hooker Chemical/Love Canal, NY. Exxon Valdez/Prince William Sound, AK. PG&E/Hinkley, CA. These sorry pairings are the benighted places impacted by greed-driven pollution that endangered lives and livelihoods. These are also places where remedy and redress was driven not by government, but by trial attorneys successfully litigating on behave of aggrieved communities. These pairings represent a tiny fraction of the many corporation-versus-community battles fought in the nation's courts by private practice attorneys. The American Association for Justice has just released a report on the impact of trial attorneys on protecting the environment. It is well worth reading. Read More >

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 >

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 >

Obama on the Environment: A Quick Look at What Was Said in the State of the Union Address

Feb 10, 2010

With America facing the serious repercussions from our years of inaction around climate change and energy instability, President Obama focused on these critical issues early in his State of the Union address.  Keeping to his line of bipartisanship that he established during his election campaign, Obama offered a mix of solutions to these crises.  But by trying to please everyone just enough, will he be able to bring people from across the aisle together to pass the real solutions that we need so badly need?

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AB 1879: A Big First Step Toward Reducing Exposure to Toxic Chemicals

Oct 1, 2008

Yesterday was the final deadline for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign or veto all of the laws that reached his desk, and a number of our top priority bills were signed into law.

One such bill was Assemblymember Mike Feuer’s AB 1879, which gives the state more authority to protect Californians’ health from toxic chemicals in consumer products. Read More >

 
 
 

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