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California’s 2009 Legislative Session Ends with a Whimper

October 13, 2009

Posted by Annie Notthoff in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
airqualitymanagementdistrict, californiabudget, cleanairact, delta, globalwarmingsolutionsact, marineprotectedareas, renewableenergy, SCAQMD, schwarzenegger

Ending one of the most contentious legislative sessions in California's history, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed dozens of environmental bills and signed several others over the weekend that will add tons of air pollution to our environment, delay our freedom from fossil...

DUDE! Californians Riding the Waves in Washington, D.C.

February 13, 2009

Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
barbaraboxer, california, californiaenergy, climatechange, diannefeinstein, energyefficiency, henrywaxman, hildasolis, leagueofconservationvoters, nancysutley, samfarr, stevenchu

The moment Senator Dianne Feinstein opened the inaugural ceremony, I had a sense of coming home.  After all, there were two California women (Feinstein and Speaker Nancy Pelosi) accompanying President Obama down the stairs and they, along with lots of...

Is Schwarzenegger throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

December 23, 2008

Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
ab32, californiabudget, globalwarming, greenjobs, renewableenergy, schwarzenegger

Has Governor Schwarzenegger forgotten that California's environmental quality is the backbone of our economy? One of the things that make it so exciting to work in California is that, by and large, people here get it and they want to...

Harmful CA Energy Props Fail on Election Day

November 5, 2008

Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, changeinwashington, cleanenergy, election, globalwarming, prop10, prop7, renewableenergy

I don't know about you, but I'm still poring over the maps and looking at the percentages and trying to let it sink in.  One of the things this change signals is a new chance to move the great work...

California Keeps Moving Towards Solving Global Warming

June 18, 2008

Posted by Annie Notthoff in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
ab32, california, emissions, globalwarming, smartgrowth

As a continuation of my first video blog, here I talk about two pieces of solutions-based legislation in California aimed at combatting global warming. The first is AB 32, The Global Warming Solutions Act, a landmark law that NRDC helped...

The Poorely Ritten Enurgy Propozishun - Don't Be Fooled

June 18, 2008

Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Hi, for my first blog I decided to post a video. Click below to watch me talk about another round of California ballot measures coming this November, including a poorly written energy proposition. Unfortunately, the sloppy language is the least...