Daily Green

Hello and happy Monday all. In today’s news:

• Jerry Brown to sign renewable energy bill Tuesday;
• Goldman prize to be awarded to six environmental activists today in San Francisco;
• Op-Ed: Why nuclear is still a good choice; and much more.

Top of the Ticket

Capitol Alert 4/9/11
Jerry Brown to sign renewable energy bill Tuesday
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/04/jerry-brown-to-sign-renewable.html

Multiple sources 4/11/11
Goldman Environmental Prize to be awarded in S.F.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/11/MNL11IT3L7.DTL&type=green
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/awards-season-for-environmentalists/

Switchboard NRDC blog 4/11/11
Doug Obegi: Important Facts for Today's Congressional Hearing on California Water Supply
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dobegi/important_facts_for_todays_con.html

Climate Watch 4/8/11
EU Lesson for CA: Don't Give Away the Store
http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2011/04/08/eu-lesson-for-ca-dont-give-away-the-store/

CA Environmental News & Opinion

Sacramento Bee 4/10/11
Comments sought over plans to restore basin
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/10/3541666/comments-sought-over-plans-to.html

California Progress Report 4/10/11
Traci Sheehan: It Rained, It Poured, And We Stored: Why Aren't We Building More?
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/node/8864

Los Angeles Times (opinion) 4/10/11
Mark Lynas: Why nuclear power is still a good choice
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-oe-lynas-nukes-20110410,0,5660368.story

Greenspace 4/10/11
Lake Tahoe logging plan ignites a court battle
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/04/sierra-forest-fire-lake-tahoe.html

Daily News 4/11/11
Los Angeles shuts out cars, lets bikes rule the road
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_17815710

Greenspace 4/8/11
California farmers, ecologists square off over drinking water pollution
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/04/central-valley-farms-groundwater-pollution.html

Sacramento Bee 4/10/11
Lawsuit seeks removal of Central Valley beetle from endangered list
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/09/3539932/lawsuit-seeks-removal-of-central.html

San Francisco Chronicle 4/9/11
SF Civic Center could be model for sustainability
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/10/BAHS1IRJI5.DTL&type=green

Sacramento Bee (column) 4/10/11
Dan Morain: A pen stroke led to a sweet subsidy
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/10/3539448/a-pen-stroke-led-to-a-sweet-subsidy.html#mi_rss=Opinion

Sacramento Bee 4/10/11
California bill would ease way for landfill growth
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/10/3539802/california-bill-would-ease-way.html

Los Angeles Times 4/11/11
Proposed downtown stadium could require county as well as city approval
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stadium-supes-20110411,0,6193738.story

California Watch 4/10/11
Restrictive rules keep schools from state’s seismic repair fund
http://californiawatch.org/earthquakes/funding

San Diego Union Tribune 4/8/11
Injured sea turtle a symbol of recovery as San Diego hosts International Sea Turtle Society
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/apr/08/turtles-take-center-stage-global-gathering/

State Politics

San Francisco Chronicle 4/11/11
Gov. Jerry Brown pushes tax vote on GOP turf
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/10/BAP41ITS1N.DTL

Sacramento Bee 4/10/11
Governor sees hope for tax deal by pressing Republicans
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/10/3541283/browns-countdown-day-91-governor.html

San Francisco Chronicle 4/9/11
Brown says he may not wait for voters on taxes
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/09/BA8G1IT5LO.DTL

Los Angeles Times 4/11/11
Redistricting poses challenge to candidates pondering a 2012 run
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-early-candidates-20110411,0,1629259.story

San Jose Mercury News 4/11/11
California's Calendar of Doom
http://www.mercurynews.com/california-budget/ci_17815388

California Progress Report 4/11/11
Peter Schrag: Time For The Fright Lists
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/node/8868

Los Angeles Times (column) 4/11/11
George Skelton: Cutting public pensions now won't save California
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap-pensions-20110411,0,2066073.column

Calbuzz 4/11/11
D.C. and Sacto: A Tale of Two Political Universes
http://www.calbuzz.com/2011/04/how-sacramento-and-washington-are-alike-and-not/

National Environmental News

Politico 4/11/11
Did Senate GOP doom EPA riders?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52920.html

The Hill E2 Blog 4/11/11
The week ahead: Drilling bills on deck in the House
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/155149-the-week-ahead-drilling-bills-on-deck-in-the-house

New York Times 4/11/11
Gulf’s Complexity and Resilience Seen in Studies of Oil Spill
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/science/12spill.html

Guardian 4/9/11
The Koch brothers: all the influence money can buy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/08/koch-brothers-lobbying

Green New York Times Blog 4/9/11
Q. and A.: Taking On Climate Skepticism as a Field of Study
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/taking-on-climate-skepticism-as-a-field-of-study/

The Hill E2 Blog 4/10/11
Study: Gas from ‘fracking’ worse than coal on climate
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/155101-report-gas-from-fracking-worse-than-coal-on-climate

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