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Gov. Newsom, Legislature Reach $536 Million Deal for Wildfire Prevention

April 8, 2021 5:45 pmApril 9, 2021 3:12 pm

Speaking from Shaver Lake in Fresno County and surrounded by California Conservation Corps members, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he had reached a deal with the state legislature to allocate $536 million for forest management and wildfire reduction projects on...

New Climate Change Disclosures Target ‘Commercial Development of Fossil Fuels’

March 20, 2021 8:36 amMarch 20, 2021 8:38 am

On March 18, Assembly members Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills) and Steve Bennett (D-Santa Barbara) amended their Assembly Bill 766 dealing with corporate disclosures of climate change information. The bill would add Section 38537 to the Health and Safety Code. The bill...

CA’s New Climate Change Legislation Claiming ‘Extreme Heat’ Is False

February 13, 2021 10:35 amFebruary 15, 2021 7:47 am

Climate change is back on the docket as the California Legislature gets underway in 2021. But buyer beware: one proposed bill would mandate California students are taught about climate change as early as first grade and would make the subject...

New Climate Change Bill to Establish the CA Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program

February 12, 2021 7:20 amFebruary 12, 2021 7:32 am

Assembly Member Luz Rivas introduced Assembly Bill 585 this week to establish the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program to facilitate the implementation of regional and state climate change planning into effective projects. The bill would add Part 4.6 (commencing...

San Francisco Votes To Ban Natural Gas in Newer Buildings

November 12, 2020 4:42 pmNovember 13, 2020 6:08 am

Earlier this week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban natural gas from all new buildings within the city, becoming the latest Californian city to enact such legislation in the last few years. The ban ins scheduled to...

‘Climate Change’ Is Not Making It Harder to Vote

October 30, 2020 3:24 pmOctober 30, 2020 3:34 pm

A press release from a political group called “ClimatePower2020” makes ridiculously wild claims that “climate change” is making it more difficult to vote in the upcoming presidential election, by creating severe weather extremes that keep people from venturing out to vote. There’s...

How to Save California’s Forests

October 20, 2020 2:13 amOctober 19, 2020 9:11 pm

For about twenty million years, California’s forests endured countless droughts, some lasting over a century. Natural fires, started by lightning and very frequent in the Sierras, were essential to keep forest ecosystems healthy. In Yosemite, for example, meadows used to...