By Sierra Club CA, on November 1st, 2011 SACRAMENTO – Most California Democratic legislators voted consistently to protect our air, water and wild places, while the vast majority of their Republican counterparts continued to be obstacles to environmental progress, Sierra Club California’s annual Legislative Report Card finds.
Sierra Club California tracked the votes of California’s Assemblymembers and Senators, recording each Earth-friendly vote as a positive score. From clean energy to water conservation to protecting state parks, the measures addressed many of California’s most urgent 2011 environmental priorities.
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By Kathryn Phillips, on September 20th, 2011 I’ve been thinking a lot about the endangered California desert tortoises and wondering what lessons they might reveal. These very private creatures have been making news lately even though their natural approach to attention is more in tune with Greta Garbo’s.
First there was the revelation that construction of the Ivanpah large-scale solar plant proposed in the Mojave Desert would wipe out nearly 550 juvenile tortoises. Then there was Governor Brown’s wink-wink quip to a Fresno audience that, by siding with large-scale solar development, he planned to take care of the tortoise. “We’re going to give it a lot of shade,” Brown said, according to press reports.
California desert tortoises have managed to adapt to some of the most brutal summer conditions on the continent and survive as a species for eons. Human activities ranging from off-road vehicles to mining and development have carved away their quiet home and their numbers have dwindled. Large-scale solar development, and a governor who seems bent on crushing environmental review, are just their latest challenges.
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By Bill Magavern, on May 10th, 2011 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.
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By Sierra Club CA, on May 10th, 2011 Not many know there are two John Muir Trails. One celebrates Mother Nature for 211 miles from Yosemite to Mount Whitney. The other runs 93 miles from San Francisco to Sacramento. Michael Endicott takes us along this little known route ending in the hearing room where the laws of man are crafted, sometimes in harmony and sometimes out of synch with the laws of Mother Nature. Catch pictures of vistas along this JM trail of cheers and tears on our . . . → Read More
By Sierra Club CA, on January 18th, 2011
By Sierra Club CA, on October 4th, 2010 It’s what you’ve waited for all year long… the annual Sierra Club California Report Card! This handy guide detais how your state representatives and Governor Schwarzenegger fared during the 2009-10 legislative session. It’s available now for you to see how your Legislators voted before you vote! . . . → Read More
By Sierra Club CA, on September 30th, 2010
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