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Green bills fared poorly in Sacramento

Written on 12 Sep, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 19 comments

It’s been a bad year at the state capitol for environmental issues despite an ostensibly friendly administration, and it’s a trend being felt nationwide as the economy hemorrhages. [SanJoseMercuryNews] Representatives of many California environmental interest groups had hoped that Gov.... (Continue reading)

Plastics industry editing California textbooks

Written on 21 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 29 comments

Under pressure from the American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for the plastics industry, schools officials in California edited a new environmental curriculum to include positive messages about plastic shopping bags, interviews and documents show. [CaliforniaWatch] The rewritten textbooks and... (Continue reading)

SLO County’s proposed bag ban moving forward

Written on 18 Jul, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 49 comments

Single-use paper and plastic bags could be banned at San Luis Obispo County’s larger grocery stores as early as Jan. 1, 2013, under an ordinance proposed by the county’s Integrated Waste Management Authority. At an authority meeting last week, board... (Continue reading)

Feds approve coastal fireworks

Written on 30 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

Federal regulators on Tuesday gave the green light to July Fourth fireworks shows along the San Luis Obispo, Monterey and Santa Cruz county coasts. Activists have argued that explosions from popular annual pyrotechnics shows along the coast disturb marine life,... (Continue reading)

COLAB sues over wildlife guidelines

Written on 20 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

A group of business owners is suing Ventura County over an environmental policy passed by the Board of Supervisors in April. The policy, adopted to protect plants and animals, requires land owners to produce environmental impact reports when “important” species... (Continue reading)

Aviation fuel polluting air and water with lead?

Written on 11 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 8 comments

The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) is taking legal action against several major oil companies and suppliers for allegedly causing the pollution of drinking water sources and air around 25 airports throughout California, including San Pedro Creek in Goleta and... (Continue reading)

California ranks worst state for business

Written on 6 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 39 comments

For the seventh year in a row, California tops the list as the worst state to do business, according to Chief Executive magazine's annual "Best & Worst States" survey which took the pulse of 550 CEOs across America. The executives evaluated... (Continue reading)

McCarthy chops away at wilderness protection

Written on 16 Apr, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 44 comments

Cong. Kevin McCarthy, whose district includes much of San Luis Obispo County, introduced legislation Friday designed to cut back wilderness protection efforts. [San Francisco Chronicle] McCarthy, the third ranking Republican in the House proposed a bill that would roll back the... (Continue reading)

Why did California approve a toxic pesticide?

Written on 24 Feb, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 3 comments

This week, the state Assembly began hearings on why California regulators approved a cancer-causing pesticide for use in strawberry fields and other crops last December. [San Francisco Chronicle] The hearings come as environmentalists and farm workers have filed lawsuits against... (Continue reading)

Major sewage spills in San Luis Obispo County

Written on 19 Dec, 2010 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

Health officials are warning the public to stay away from San Luis Obispo Creek, Arroyo Grande Creek, Meadow Creek, Oceano Lagoon and places where the creeks drain into the ocean because of two weekend sewage spills. The catastrophic failure of... (Continue reading)