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California Green Chemistry Starts Today

Oct 1, 2013

California's Safer Consumer Products law (also known as green chemistry) goes into effect today, making the state a leader in regulating chemicals in everyday products. The new regulations have the potential to make hundreds of consumer products -- everything from nail polish to cleaning supplies -- safer for all of us: Read More >

Time to choose: Kids or chemical industry?

May 3, 2011

How can there be any ambiguity about whether to allow a toxic chemical—one that’s been linked to cancer, obesity, ADHD, and disrupted development of hormones, the brain, and the immune system in more than 220 peer-reviewed studies — to be used in baby bottles, sippy cups, infant formula and baby food? Read More >

CLCV releases 2010 Scorecard

Feb 10, 2011

Did your representatives in Sacramento vote to protect the environment? Read More >

Reflecting on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Green Record

Dec 30, 2010

If you’ve been reading the news or listening to local talk radio programs, you know that ‘tis the season for reflecting on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s years in office and how well or poorly he performed on a number of issues important to voters. Read More >

Californians on the Governor's Race

Oct 28, 2010

Californians talk about what they want in a greener governor--watch the video inside. Read More >

2010 Legislative wrap-up

Sep 23, 2010

In the 2010 California Legislative session that recently ended, CLCV helped pass a variety of significant environmental legislation, including important wins on climate change and dangerous toxins.  Just as important, we successfully thwarted an unprecedented number of bad bills pushed by polluters, many of which tried to use the recession as an excuse to weaken enforcement of environmental protection. Read More >

Arnold Flip-Flops on Offshore Oil Drilling

May 3, 2010

For years now the proposed expanded offshore oil drilling project along Santa Barbara's coast that Governor Schwarzenegger has been trying to get passed (aka Tranquillion Ridge) has been a controversial and divisive issue even amongst the environmental community. I'll spare you the details, but the important consideration here is that the environmental movement has long taken a backseat to the pro-corporate mentality brought to you by Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr. Read More >

Schwarzenegger ever more critical of CEQA, environmental laws

Feb 5, 2010

No surprises here, just reminders of where this Governor has always stood. A few choice quotes from today’s Capitol Alert: “The governor twice this week portrayed environmental regulations as a barrier to job creation, at one point Tuesday suggesting that some environmentalists ‘become fanatics and they go overboard’ when they object to green technology projects.”

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Parks versus drilling?

Jan 8, 2010

That’s the question asked by reporter John Myers (of the California Report) regarding Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to link funding of the state’s parks to new offshore oil drilling in his just-released budget proposal.

Myers tweeted: “Guv links $200 mil from the controversial T-Ridge oil drilling project 2 help pay for #caparks. Quite a political move: parks vs. drilling?”

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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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