FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 3, 2015
CONTACT: John Hunneman @ 951.894.3530
Senator Stone Issues Statement on California Climate Change Legislative Package
(Sacramento, CA) – Senator Jeff Stone (R-Riverside County) issued the following statement today following Senate passage of California Climate Change legislative package.
“The actions taken by Senate Democrats today will drive businesses from California and stop those from outside our state from opening up shop here. Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:August 14, 2014
Contact: Ioannis Kazanis 916-505-1891
STATEMENT FROM THE AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE BAG ALLIANCE ON CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE VOTE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH PROPOSED STATEWIDE PLASTIC BAG BAN
CHICAGO, ILL. – The American Progressive Bag Alliance (APBA) issued the following statement from its executive director, Lee Califf, after the California State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee voted to move a proposed statewide plastic bag ban, SB 270 (Padilla), on to a full Floor vote.
“The Assembly Appropriations Committee has made a shortsighted decision in supporting a bill that will hurt the environment, consumers and workers. This decision is a direct threat to the jobs of the nearly 2,000 hard-working Californians employed by the state’s plastic bag manufacturing and recycling industry. Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 12, 2014
Contact: Ioannis Kazanis, Phone: 916-505-1891
CALIFORNIA PLASTIC BAG MANUFACTURERS, WORKERS, SENIORS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS SPEAK OUT AGAINST PLASTIC BAG BAN
SACRAMENTO – Representatives and workers from California plastic bag manufacturing and recycling companies, along with seniors and community leaders, convened at the State Capitol today to call on the State Legislature to reject SB 270 (Padilla), which would ban 100 percent recyclable plastic retail bags and allow grocers to charge a minimum 10-cents for paper and thicker plastic bags.
“This bill has nothing to do with the environment. It is a cash grab by corporate grocery shareholders and the whole thing is being helped along by Senator Padilla,” said Gary Halvorsen, Western Region Sales Manager at Crown Poly. “All that’s going to happen if SB 270 passes is that consumers will pay more at the checkout and 2,000 plastic bag industry workers, including the 300 I work with at Crown Poly, could be left without a job.” Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 22, 2014
CONTACT: Everett Rice @ 916-651-4037
Restoring Our Golden Promise
By Senator Mimi Walters
After the housing bubble burst in 2007, which precipitated the “Great Recession”, for too many Californians, the opportunity for economic success was lost. The release of Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed 2014-15 budget, which includes the first surplus in over a decade, has led some legislative leaders to believe that our economic challenges are over and that it is time to start spending again. Recent temporary tax increases and a resurgent, yet volatile, stock market have brought in more revenues than expected, causing Democratic legislators to irresponsibly call for increased long-term spending with short-term revenues. Continue reading
Failing to Build Keystone Pipeline is Criminal Negligence
Written by Chriss W. Street
An eyewitness noted when thirteen railroad tanker cars carrying propane and crude oil across Alberta, Canada exploded after derailing early on October 20th, “the fireball was so big, it shot across both lanes of the Yellowhead (Highway)… there’s fire on both sides.” Only two Canadian National Railway workers were injured and no deaths have been reported in this latest “pipeline on rails” calamity, but the horrific accident comes just 3 months after a similar oil train disaster in a populated area took 47 lives in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. It is too early to determine the cause of the latest accident, although Canadian investigators believe the Quebec carnage appears to be due to the train operator’s criminal negligence. But the real criminal negligence is that oil from fracking operations in booming North Dakota must be shipped by trains over a thousand mile to refiners in Nova Scotia, because U.S. regulators and their crony allies have fought building pipelines to protect and subsidize the profits of railroads, such as the Burlington Northern Railway Company that controls half the business. Given the huge risks of catastrophic loss of life and property, the Obama Administration will soon be pressured to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. Continue reading
Labor and trade unions oppose CA lead ammo ban
By Katy Grimes, Cal WatchDog
A controversial bill to ban traditional lead ammunition in California by Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, passed both houses of the Legislature last week. But according to representatives of labor and trade unions, animal rights activists pressured Rendon and lawmakers to ignore science while turning a deaf ear to voters.
Assembly Bill 711 passed largely because of concern over the poisoning of the California condor. But the bill was amended at the 11th hour in a secret deal to postpone the effective date until 2019. If the need for the bill is really over concerns about poisoned Condors, what about the thousands of great birds which will have died by the time the bill finally goes into effect six years from now? Continue reading