Jerry Brown
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California’s high-speed rail gets $1 billion
California is going to have high-speed rail. Despite grumblings about the cost, Gov. Jerry Brown supports it, and now the project, which will link San Francisco and Los Angeles, is getting close to $1 billion from the Department of Transportation. The department came up with this chunk of change and more after other governors (Florida's […]
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California will ban BPA from baby cups
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that bans bisphenol A from baby bottles and sippy cups sold in the state, starting in July of 2013. The Environmental Working Group had been pushing the law, which is called the Toxin-Free Infants and Toddlers Act and requires that manufacturers sub in the "least toxic alternative available" for hormone-disrupting BPA.
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Jerry Brown wishes we could treat clean energy like we treat stuffed lions
California Gov. Jerry Brown (whose full first name is Edmund, who knew) has reached across the aisle for the sake of dead mountain lions. Now he'd like to gently suggest to the California senate that things like clean energy might be almost as important.
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Run and hide from methyl iodide
Activists gathered in San Francisco to protest the use of methyl iodide, a known carcinogen, as a pesticide on California crops.
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Jerry Brown 2.0: friend or foe of farmworkers?
This week Jerry Brown vetoed the Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act, which would have improved working conditions for California farmworkers.
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Distributed geothermal could supply 7 percent of California’s electricity
With the right policies in place, geothermal could play an active role in reaching California’s renewable energy goals.Small, geographically dispersed geothermal power plants could provide 7 percent of California’s electricity supply, according to an analysis of data collected by a consultant to the Golden State. California recently passed new legislation requiring the state to provide […]
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What’s next for the enviro-business coalition that defeated California’s Prop 23?
Now that we’ve put together some green muscle, what will we do with it?Photo: Denis GilesMuch of the green movement has been mounting a rearguard fight in Washington to fend off attempts to gut the U.S. EPA in the wake of the Republican sweep of the 2010 elections. California, as usual, is heading down a […]
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California’s cap-and-trade plan is better for environmental justice than the alternatives
Gov. Jerry Brown will move forward with Assembly Bill 32, under which California seeks dramatic steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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California's cap-and-trade plan is better for environmental justice than the alternatives
Gov. Jerry Brown will move forward with Assembly Bill 32, under which California seeks dramatic steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.