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Senator Wiener Proposes Oil and Gas Industry Pay for ‘Climate Driven Disasters’

January 27, 2025 4:28 pmJanuary 27, 2025 7:36 pm

Californians are paying the price for climate change events and catastrophic wildfires happening in the middle of winter, said Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), as he announced his new bill, Senate Bill 222, “the Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act.”...

CA Lawmaker Claims Wildfires are ‘Being Driven by Climate Change’

January 24, 2025 8:00 amJanuary 25, 2025 3:19 pm

Thursday in the California Assembly, lawmakers debated and voted to approve $2.5B in wildfire relief bills, only after Democrats blocked an additional $1 billion for wildfire prevention, requested by Republicans. As the Globe reported, Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) told colleagues...

California Legislature Approves $2.5B Wildfire Relief Bills

January 23, 2025 1:09 pmJanuary 23, 2025 5:20 pm

California State Senators and Assembly members unanimously passed two bills Thursday morning to provide a total of $3 billion to help Los Angeles begin recovery and cleanup from the devastating wildfires. The proposed funding in Assembly Bill 4 and Senate...

Senate Republicans Outline Decades of Democrats Killing Wildfire Prevention Bills

January 22, 2025 5:07 pmJanuary 23, 2025 1:10 pm

With several wildfires still blazing in Los Angeles, the Globe has been reflecting on how and why this is happening, especially with the state’s recent history of devastating and deadly wildfires. We harkened back to former Gov. Jerry Brown, who...

California’s Professional Political Class Caused the State’s Demise

January 20, 2025 3:15 amJanuary 21, 2025 11:49 am

As California Governor Gavin Newsom makes the rounds on every available media outlet – on every podcast and media interview – insisting that now is not the time to point fingers over the responsibility of the Pacific Palisades and Los...

Fires, Floods, and Fools: Rhetoric vs. Disaster

January 16, 2025 3:30 amJanuary 16, 2025 3:31 am

Back in the 1990’s, I penned my first in a series of articles dealing with the subject matter of “Fires, Floods, and Fools,” a never-ending cycle in California. Having lived through the 1969 flood and countless fires, it was a...

Benevolent CA Air Resources Board Withdraws Federal Waiver Allowing Truck Drivers to Stay in Business

January 15, 2025 7:44 amJanuary 15, 2025 9:31 am

“California has no choice but to abandon its groundbreaking rules for zero-emission trucks and cleaner locomotives,” CalMatters reports. That’s one way of acknowledging that the benevolent California Air Resources Board has withdrawn the federal waiver to enact emissions limits that...