Editor’s note: Jena Price, CLCV Legislative Affairs Manager, is spending a few weeks on the road meeting with lawmakers in Central and Southern California in …
CLCV Listening Tour: Grapes and groundwater
Editor’s note: Jena Price, CLCV Legislative Affairs Manager, is spending a few weeks on the road meeting with lawmakers in Central and Southern California in …
She won’t sit idly under the plum tree
Today the Environmental Protection Agency held a “listening session” in San Francisco, one of 11 cities hosting such public hearings across the country to …
CLCV Releases 2013 Environmental Scorecard
Today CLCV released our annual California Environmental Scorecard, revealing how members of the state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown performed on the most important …
Governor Brown Signs Lead Ammunition Ban
This is huge. Today Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill to ban lead ammunition in hunting, making California a leader in protecting wildlife from lead …
A law to protect firefighters… and all of us
Firefighters, public health and safety advocates, green building professionals and environmentalists agree: It’s time to get toxic chemicals out of our homes and buildings. The …
California Green Chemistry Starts Today
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. …
California Trashes Plastic Bags!
This is big, California! Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law the statewide ban on single-use plastic bags, SB 270! Californians who care about protecting …
Get the lead out
Lead is toxic. It poisons humans and wildlife alike. So why is lead ammunition still allowed in California? Right now, Governor Jerry Brown is considering …
Legislative session concludes with environmental progress and hurdles
The first year of the 2013-14 legislative session concluded in the wee hours last Friday morning. In the final days of the session the legislature …
heard, but heard wrong
Yesterday afternoon, the California Assembly voted 47-17 to pass the one remaining fracking bill SB 4. Then the Senate voted: 28-8 in favor. We recently …
Environmental Groups: Fix Fracking Bill
(Updated 2:00 pm PST): Four environmental groups–including CLCV–who have advocated for a bill to implement the first-ever comprehensive fracking regulations in California withdrew our …
