Capitol Watchdog: Meetings to Watch

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Mon, 12/07/2015 - 08:48

Mergers, civic engagement and campaign finance are on the schedule for this week. In addition, the Independent Review Panel for the Department of Toxic Substances Control will be having two meetings on reform. Wednesday's meeting may be especially contentious, considering environmental groups will be laying out internal problems with the DTSC that need to be fixed. 

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CA Lawmakers Should Approve All Mail Ballot System Next Session

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Fri, 12/04/2015 - 10:16
If California lawmakers truly want to change our woeful voter participation, and listen to their constituents, they will quickly adopt Sen. Ben Allen's push for a statewide mail ballot system in the next legislative session. 
 

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Capitol Watchdog: Meetings to Watch

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Wed, 12/02/2015 - 11:04

The push for climate change reform is not only happening in Paris. The nurses union is planning a major rally in Downtown Los Angeles on Thursday to call for a global solution to the crisis. Next week, both the Department of Managed Healthcare be holding a public meeting on the proposed merger between health insurers Centene and Health Net. 

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Political Money Watchdog Wants More Transparency, Less Vague Payments

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Wed, 12/02/2015 - 10:13
At the end of California's last legislative's session, a mailer landed in thousands of mailboxes slamming an historic climate change proposal that would have slashed petroleum use in cars and trucks in half by 2030. It was sent by a grassrootsie-sounding group called the California Drivers Alliance. But in reality, it was just Big Oil's mouthpiece, Western States Petroleum Association. 
 

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Not All Solar Power Is Equal: Sacramento Sticks It To The Homeowners

Submitted by Jamie Court on Tue, 12/01/2015 - 10:41
As Governor Brown and legislative leaders try to spur climate change reforms worldwide in Paris, the Los Angeles Times’ energy reporter Ivan Penn uncovered how the statehouse’s climate reform stuck it to rooftop solar power homeowners in favor of the big utilities. 
 
The cautionary tale for Paris reformers is cleaner energy needs also to be cheaper energy and ratepayers shouldn’t be taken for a ride in the process or it will undermine the movement to curb global warming.

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CA Head of Oil and Gas Division Resigning; Clueless About Brown Mapgate

Submitted by Eddie Barrera on Mon, 11/30/2015 - 16:55

The head of the state's oil and gas oversight agency is leaving, and he still doesn't understand why Gov. Jerry Brown shouldn't have used state workers for private business. 

Oil & Gas Supervisor Steve Bohlen at California’s Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) is resigning and returning to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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