Campaign Tales: Seven recent victories

Lawmakers still listen to their constituents. A small number of phone calls or letters is taken to represent the opinion of many more people. A steady stream of feedback to elected and appointed officials has been repeatedly successful in convincing legislators to vote for environmental bills. Here are just a few of our most recent victories we've celebrated.

Seven recent big victories:

• No on Prop 23, the Dirty Energy Initiative (2010)
• AB 890: Healthy water for the city of Maywood (2009)
• SB 375: Reducing global warming through better planning (2008)
• AB 1108: Ban on toxic chemicals in children's products (2007)
• AB 32: Putting the brakes on global warming (2006)
• AB 289: Protect our health from commercial chemicals (2006)
• SB 107: More renewable energy for California (2006)