Join us in Sacramento for our annual Lobby Day! Sunday and Monday August 28th and 29th Become part of a team that will help Sierra Club California pass our priority legislation during the most exciting and challenging time of the year at the State Capitol! You will have opportunities to interact with other activists and our professional lobbying staff, as well as with legislators and their staff. . . . → Read More
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When T. S. Eliot called April “the cruelest month,” he was probably not thinking of the California Legislature, but your Sierra Club California advocates have had our hands full this month. As you will read elsewhere in this issue of Capitol Voice, we cheered the enactment of a 33% clean energy standard and moved 2 of our own sponsored bills through their first policy committees. But I want to tell you more about a very important part of . . . → Read More Support AB 19 (Fong), water conservation, would require the water metering or submetering of multi-unit residences like apartment buildings and condominiums that are constructed after January 1, 2014. Metering or sub-metering ensures water users receive an appropriate signal regarding the volume and cost of their water use, and thus incentivizes residents to undertake responsible water use and conserve water. AB 19 is sponsored by Sierra Club California. SB 790 (Leno), electric utility choice, would strengthen . . . → Read More California’s water supply is under intense pressure from climate change, increasing population, and development. We need to encourage greater water conservation in order to ensure a sustainable water supply for future generations. Most apartment buildings and condominiums do not provide water meters to individual units. Instead, the cost of water use is included with the cost of . . . → Read More Raise in renewable power generation will juice up California’s economy, benefit the environment On Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign SB x1 2, requiring public and private utilities to obtain 33 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020. The governor’s action comes at a critical time for the state of California. Most experts agree that clean energy will provide new jobs to lift the Golden State’s economy, while reducing the pollution . . . → Read More Ask Gov. Brown to stop the GOP Five from gutting CEQA TODAY Exploiting the hardships caused by the economic climate and the state budget crisis, special interests are redoubling their efforts to pass legislation that would dismantle the Golden State’s premiere environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Developers and business groups are spinning California’s high rates of unemployment to claim an inherent conflict between job creation and the protection . . . → Read More |
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Bringing Localized Clean Energy to California Communities and Expanding the use of Renewable Distributed Generation