Green Vs. Green
Some might recall the “Redwood Summer” of 1990, when “thousands of environmentalists” gathered on California’s North Coast to protest a timber harvest. “They blocked roads, sat in trees and chained themselves to logging equipment to halt old-growth cutting,” recalls High Country News. There were also “shoving matches, screaming confrontations and fistfights between activists and timber workers.” So … maybe not “fiery,” but a “mostly peaceful” protest? The Los Angeles Times had a man on the ...
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Latest Effort to Ban Plastic Bags Also Doomed to Fail
California’s long statewide nightmare might soon be over. The current generation of plastic bags are in line to be banned just as their predecessors were. Ten years after Sacramento outlawed single-use plastic bags (with the help of a majority of voters two years later in a referendum), legislators have approved a ban on the multi-use bags that took their place, with each chamber passing a bill that, in identical language, prohibits “a reusable grocery bag ...
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California’s No-Car Salesman
Recently, Politico saucily reported that “Gavin Newsom is coming for your car, and he wants you to know it.” And below the headline: “The talked-about presidential contender is carving out an underutilized lane: climate crusader.” It’s hardly an empty lane. In fact, politicians are constantly crashing into each other just to get in. But Newsom alone is taking the lane to “appearances from China to the Vatican, selling it as a winning issue beyond the ...
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