Daily Green

Good afternoon, all. In the news today:

• CLCV Board Chair-elect Rick Zbur shares CLCV's top priorities;
• Supreme Court signals it will toss out global-warming lawsuit;
• Will cap-and-trade work?
• Large Riverside solar project will get federal financial support;
• And much more.

Top of the Ticket

Groundswell (CLCV Blog) 4/19/11
Rick Zbur: CLCV's Priorities
http://www.ecovote.org/blog/clcv-priorities-rick-zbur

Los Angeles Times 4/19/11
Supreme Court signals it will toss out global-warming lawsuit
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/sc-dc-0420-court-warming-web-20110419,0,4564390.story

Switchboard (NRDC Blog) 4/19/11
The Sky Will Not Fall: Why the Supreme Court Should Let States Sue the Country's Biggest Carbon Polluters
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ddoniger/the_sky_will_not_fall_why_the.html

Greenspace 4/18/11
California's carbon market: Will cap-and-trade work?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/04/california-cap-and-trade-carbon-trading.html

Greenspace 4/18/11
Riverside County solar project gets $2.1-billion federal guarantee
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/04/blythe-solar-project-gets-conditional-21-billion-federal-loan-guarantee.html

CA Environmental News & Opinion

Sacramento Bee 4/19/11
Editorial: Lax oversight leads to lethal trail of rat bait
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/19/3561927/lax-oversight-leads-to-lethal.html

Huffington Post 4/18/11
Delusion! Delusion! What Drought Is Over?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-fagan/delusion-delusion-what-dr_b_847106.html

Palo Alto Daily News 4/18/11
Peninsula lawmakers call for 'blended' approach to high-speed rail
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_17874555

San Francisco Chronicle Politics Blog 4/18/11
Follow the union, big business money in 'Anti-Walmart' bill
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=87302

San Diego Coastkeeper Blog 4/18/11
The San Diego Environmental Quality Report Card: What is it?
http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/blog/environmental-education/item/101-the-environmental-quality-report-card-what-is-it?.html

Green Roots (Planning and Conservation League Blog) 4/18/11
Another PCL Affordable Water Solution Moving Forward!
http://greenroots.pcl.org/2011/04/18/another-pcl-affordable-water-solution-moving-forward/

San Francisco Chronicle 4/19/11
EBMUD set back by Pardee Reservoir ruling
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/19/BA9C1J32F9.DTL

Associated Press 4/19/11
Thousands of fish die after swarming Calif. harbor
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/apr/19/thousands-of-fish-die-after-swarming-calif-harbor/

Sacramento Bee 4/18/11              
Scalpers flipping Yosemite reservations
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/18/3559595/scalpers-flipping-yosemite-reservations.html

Associated Press 4/19/11
Caltrain appears to have found needed $3.5M
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/19/3563129/caltrain-appears-to-have-found.html

Fresno Bee 4/17/11
Fresno County considers outsourcing care of parks
http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/04/17/2354494/fresno-county-considers-outsourcing.html

State Politics

Sacramento Bee 4/19/11
California Teachers Association launches TV ad urging lawmakers to solve budget
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/19/3562092/california-teachers-association.html

Calitics 4/19/11
New CA-36 Poll Shows Race Tied Between Bowen and Hahn, Winograd at 6%
http://calitics.com/diary/13411/new-ca36-poll-shows-race-tied-between-bowen-and-hahn-winograd-at-6

Fresno Bee 4/18/11
State leadership PACs loading up
http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/04/18/2355758/state-leadership-pacs-loading.html

California Progress Report 4/19/11
Martin J. Bennett: Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/node/8897

National & International Environmental News

E² Wire 4/18/11
EPA: 2009 greenhouse gas emissions were lowest recorded since 1995
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/156659-epa-2009-greenhouse-gas-emissions-lowest-since-1995

National Journal 4/18/11
Green Jobs Will Trump Climate Change for Young Voters
http://www.nationaljournal.com/green-jobs-will-trump-climate-change-for-young-voters-20110418

Grist 4/18/11
The EPA chooses sprawl over urban sustainability
http://www.grist.org/sprawl/2011-04-18-epa-chooses-sprawl-over-urban-sustainability

New York Times 4/18/11
The Koch Brothers and Climate Science, Redux
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/business/global/18iht-rbog-bicycle-18.html

TreeHugger 4/19/11
Walmart Is Crushing Its Ambitious Global-Responsibility Goals
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/walmart-crushing-ambitious-global-responsibility-goals.php

Grist 4/19/11
Google invests $100 million in giant Oregon wind farm
http://www.grist.org/wind-power/2011-04-19-google-invests-100-million-in-giant-oregon-wind-farm

Reuters 4/19/11
Mediterranean fishermen break rules, fish die out: report
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/19/us-fish-idUSTRE73I01U20110419

New York Times 4/18/11
Out of Disaster, a Burst of Enthusiasm for Bicycling
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/business/global/18iht-rbog-bicycle-18.html

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