Daily Green

Hello and Happy Friday all. In today’s news:

• California solar project a “major milestone”;
• What are the bees telling us?
• Farm jobs lost? Blame environmentalists (or not);
• Governor keeps hunting for GOP votes; and more.

Top of the Ticket

The Hill E2 Wire Blog 6/17/11
Salazar praises California solar project as 'major milestone'
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/167129-salazar-praises-california-solar-project-as-major-milestone

Groundswell CLCV Blog 6/17/11
What are the bees telling us?
http://www.ecovote.org/blog/what-are-bees-telling-us

Related story: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-honeybee-documentaries-20110619,0,241531.story

California Watch 6/17/11
New online tool allows users to see climate change in California
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/new-online-tool-allows-users-see-climate-change-california-10856

Green New York Times Blog 6/17/11
Farm Jobs Lost? Blame Environmentalists! (Or Not.)
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/farm-jobs-lost-blame-environmentalists-or-not/

Associated Press 6/17/11
Human sewage pile, illegal dump top spots in Calif. ‘environmental justice’ sightseeing tour
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-government/human-sewage-pile-illegal-dump-top-spots-in-calif-environmental-justice-sightseeing-tour/2011/06/17/AG4jSSYH_story.html

CA Budget: Brown’s Veto

Sacramento Bee 6/17/11
Governor keeps hunting for GOP votes
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/17/3707488/veto-brown-questions-the-plans.html

Los Angeles Times 6/17/11
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes 'unbalanced' state budget
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0617-state-budget-20110617,0,3173253.story

Contra Costa Times 6/17/11
Brown vetoes budget, criticizes 'gimmicks'
http://www.contracostatimes.com/politics-government/ci_18294084

Wall Street Journal 6/17/11
Brown Vetoes California Budget
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304319804576389750959469550.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5

Capitol Alert 6/17/11
Steinberg to halt confirmation of Brown's appointees
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/06/steinberg-to-block-confirmatio.html

California Environment

San Jose Mercury News 6/17/11
Port unions join forces against Saltworks project
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_18297502

California Watch 6/17/11
PG&E green program helps preserve forests, but so did taxpayers
http://californiawatch.org/environment/pge-green-program-helps-preserve-forests-so-did-taxpayers-10789

Los Angeles Times (column) 6/17/11
Steve Lopez: U2’s The Edge says he's an environmentalist, but he still wants to pave over paradise
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/steve-lopez-u2-coastal-commission-malibu.html

Related story: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-edge-malibu-project-20110617,0,5823607.story

San Diego Union Tribune 6/16/11
Wine industry sees future in reused bottles
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jun/16/wine-industry-sees-future-reused-bottles/

California Progress Report 6/17/11
Charles Gardiner: Delta Vision 2011 Report Card Assigns Stern Grades to State and Feds
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/node/9085

Wall Street Journal 6/16/11
Land Battle Stirs Richmond
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303848104576383924290026698.html

State Politics

Fox and Hounds Daily 6/17/11
Tony Quinn: How the Redistricting Commission Screwed Latinos
http://foxandhoundsdaily.com/blog/tony-quinn/9102-how-redistricting-commission-screwed-latinos

Calitics 6/17/11
Brian Leubitz: Will There be A Congressional Frenzy Next Year as the Music Stops?
http://calitics.com/diary/13592/will-there-be-a-congressional-frenzy-next-year-as-the-music-stops

The Buzz Sacramento Bee blog 6/17/11
California interest groups setting their sights on electing new crop in Legislature
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/17/3707358/the-buzz-california-interest-groups.html

Los Angeles Times 6/17/11
California loses 29,200 jobs in May, a blow to recovery
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/06/california-jobs.html

San Jose Mercury News 6/17/11
Silicon Valley jobless rate falls in May as tech employers hire
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_18300016

Associated Press 6/17/11
Poll: Schwarzenegger image tanks after revelation
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/17/3708371/poll-schwarzenegger-image-tanks.html

National & International

Guardian 6/17/11
UN climate talks will collapse without EU leadership, thinktank warns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/16/un-climate-talks-collapse-eu-leadership

San Francisco Chronicle 6/17/11
David Sirota: America's energy ethos: Do, regardless of harm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/17/INOL1JRRH3.DTL&type=green

New York Times (editorial) 6/17/11
A Sneaky Attack on Clean Water Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/opinion/17fri3.html

“Forum” KQED-FM 6/16/11
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and "The Last Mountain"
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201106150931

New York Times 6/17/11
Maker of Silicon Wafers Wins Millions in U.S. Loan Support
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/business/energy-environment/17guarantee.html

The Hill E2 Wire Blog 6/17/11
Rep. Sullivan defends natural-gas bill, says critics doing bidding of Koch Industries
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/167075-sullivan-defends-natural-gas-bill-says-critics-doing-kochs-bidding

Bloomberg 6/17/11
EPA’s First Carbon Rules Seen to Costing Little, Gaining Little
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-16/epa-s-first-carbon-rules-seen-to-costing-little-gaining-little.html

Reuters 6/17/11
Analysis: Gas Is Killing Green Energy In Price War
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/62348

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