Previous posts have described the decades-long efforts by California to deal with the challenge of air pollution. Automobile-generated air pollution in the Los Angeles area forced California to start developing responses before Congress was ready to take action, and therefore when the Clean Air Act was passed by Congress in 1970 the
One of the programs that falls under the umbrella of the Capital Center for Law and Policy at McGeorge School of Law is the Municipal Innovation Program. The Programs’ current project – the California Local Redistricting Project – which is done in partnership with California Common Cause, is excited to announce a new ordinance generator
SB 320: Expanding Abortion Access for College Students
A quick note, this interview was recorded on 1/26. In the intervening week between the recording of this podcast and this post going live, the California State Senate voted on and passed SB 320 by a vote of 25-13, with two Senators not voting.
A few days after my post about California’s decades-long leadership on efforts to curb air pollution from vehicles, The Sacramento Bee ran an opinion piece on the topic, written by Robert F. Sawyer and Jananne Sharpless, former chairpersons of the California Air Resources Board. In “Let California lead on clean cars,” the
A dramatic confrontation over climate change took place on Monday, December 11, in the San Francisco courthouse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. That’s the federal appellate court that includes California and the other western states. The plaintiffs, many of whom are children, point out that the