Dewey Defeats Truman 2010

Nov 24, 2010

Dewey Defeats Truman.

That headline will always be one of my favorites. Back then in a world without the internet and information at the palm of your hand, it's slightly understandable that a newspaper would make such a major error in a tough election. After all, with print deadlines to meet, reporters couldn't accurately get election returns before an article about an election was due at the printer for the next morning's paper. Of course, that blatantly wrong headline and article lives on infamy as the poster-child for not declaring victory too early. But once in a while, someone forgets and learns their lesson the hard way. Read More >

California's budget earthquake

Nov 11, 2010

California's short-term fiscal outlook is grim. What does that mean for environmental policy? Read More >

Election Results: "Don't mess with California!"

Nov 3, 2010

On Election Day, environmental voters spoke loud and clear. Read More >

Californians on the Governor's Race

Oct 28, 2010

Californians talk about what they want in a greener governor--watch the video inside. Read More >

Women and environmental candidates

Oct 27, 2010

Watch a post-Women's Conference webcast with Sen. Sheila Kuehl, CLCV's Lindsay Bubar, and others discussing the environment & women's issues. Read More >

Cal State Los Angeles Student Leader Joel Francis 1, Dirty Energy Billionaire Charles Koch 0

Oct 26, 2010

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

Newsom's new ad spotlights opponent's terrible voting record

Oct 14, 2010

Gavin Newsom, CLCV's candidate for Lt. governor has a new ad that spotlight's Abel Maldonado's terrible environmental voting record via CLCV's scorecard. Read More >

Will Big Oil go all-in for Prop 26?

Oct 13, 2010

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 >

2010 Legislative wrap-up

Sep 23, 2010

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 >

Studies not stories: Businesses are NOT leaving California

Sep 23, 2010

You hear it all the time -typically from corporately-backed Republican candidates running for office: "California's regulations are a job killer. Companies are leaving California to do business elsewhere." This is the argument that Texas oil companies are using to promote Prop 23, which would basically kill California's sole prospering business sector right now: clean tech. But here's another important question: are there more of them than there are new companies coming in or starting up locally? 

Turns out, there actually have been studies on this issue like this recent one from the Public Policy Institute of California. In fact, they historically have demonstrated that the vast vast majority of businesses aren't leaving California after all. Sure there are some companies that leave, and some people decide not to start a business in California, but the percentage is negligible, so much so that California suffers less from this problem than other states: Read More >

 
 
 

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