With only 5 days until the big election we continue to see attack ads increasing, particularly in the tight Attorney General race. The candidates in the race, Kamala Harris and Steve Cooley, are neck and neck. What happens between now and Election Day will determine the outcome. Read More >

Student and veteran Joel Francis is challenging Kansas oil magnate Charles Koch to debate Prop 23. Read More >

Is anyone Prop 23'd out yet? The answer may be Big Oil.

By now, most voters in the environmental community know what Prop 23 is. If passed, it would suspend and effectively kill AB32 our landmark global warming law to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020. It's no secret that Prop 23, the Dirty Energy initiative has been primarily funded by two Texas oil companies (Valero and Tesoro) along with the climate change-denier kings the Koch brothers. But after these three put in their combined $6.5 million dollars back in September, the money for the Yes on Prop 23 campaign oddly stopped coming in. Meanwhile, CLCV and our allies on the No on Prop 23 campaign have been steadily building a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, and environmentalists that are standing united in our opposition to the deceitful measure. In fact, our work has been so effective that recent polling suggests the measure will lose.  Read More >

In the 2010 California Legislative session that recently ended, CLCV helped pass a variety of significant environmental legislation, including important wins on climate change and dangerous toxins.  Just as important, we successfully thwarted an unprecedented number of bad bills pushed by polluters, many of which tried to use the recession as an excuse to weaken enforcement of environmental protection. Read More >