Groundswell: CLCV Blog

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is planning to mail her updated glossy booklet of policy positions to California voters in advance of the general election, as she did before the primary election. But as Capital Notes reporter John Myers pointed out in his recent blog, one of the most noticeable changes in the new version is the candidate's description of her position on the Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32.

According to Myers:

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...

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.