Texas oil boys gunning for California climate law

Mar 5, 2010

Two Texas-based oil companies have reportedly pledged up to $2 million to buy signatures for a ballot initiative to suspend California's landmark global warming law. Read More >

Obama on the Environment: A Quick Look at What Was Said in the State of the Union Address

Feb 10, 2010

With America facing the serious repercussions from our years of inaction around climate change and energy instability, President Obama focused on these critical issues early in his State of the Union address.  Keeping to his line of bipartisanship that he established during his election campaign, Obama offered a mix of solutions to these crises.  But by trying to please everyone just enough, will he be able to bring people from across the aisle together to pass the real solutions that we need so badly need?

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Palin Likens Global Warming Studies To Snake Oil. Really?!?

Feb 9, 2010

Data, more precisely facts, are an alien concept to the former Half-Term Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. Her assertion that climate science is “snake oil” is yet another reflection of the profound ignorance that characterizes her mental world. As reported by the Associated Press:

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Schwarzenegger ever more critical of CEQA, environmental laws

Feb 5, 2010

No surprises here, just reminders of where this Governor has always stood. A few choice quotes from today’s Capitol Alert: “The governor twice this week portrayed environmental regulations as a barrier to job creation, at one point Tuesday suggesting that some environmentalists ‘become fanatics and they go overboard’ when they object to green technology projects.”

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California corporations are major players in climate-related lobbying

Dec 29, 2009

A new report from an ongoing study on climate-related lobbying released today by the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity (CPI) shows that California corporations are major players in climate change-related lobbying activity.

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Add 3 More C’s to Climate Change: Copenhagen, CA, and Cap & Trade

Dec 14, 2009

The world is waiting to see what’s going to come from discussions among our leaders in Copenhagen on the most pressing issue of our time – climate change.  Have you thought about what the U.S. is bringing to the table?

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