Environment
California
San Diego’s Successful Desal Plant Should Be a Model for California Water Policy
Often the value of a plan or project can best be judged by its opposition. In the case of the proposed Poseidon desalination plant in Huntington Beach, the forces lined up against it are clear indicators that it’s a worthwhile enterprise. The Sierra Club calls the plant “rather pathetic,” “the ...
Agriculture
Suppressing Progress
By Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and John Cohrssen Over the weekend, the FDA issued an emergency-use authorization for Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, clearing the path to market for the third coronavirus vaccine. The FDA had previously approved the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccines in record time—mere weeks after their ...
Blog
EV Mandates — More CopyCal Moves from Washington
Among Pres. Biden’s first executive orders was to replace the entire fleet of federal vehicles with electric vehicles — about 645,000 in all according to the General Services Administration. He claimed that it would create one million autoworker jobs in the U.S. Chock up another win for the Golden State, ...
Agriculture
Dr. Henry Miller Talks Agriculture Protections, Biden’s EPA Nomination
Dr. Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. talks about how the Biden administrations nomination for secretary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be a detriment to helping agriculture survive extreme weather events. Miller talks about how the EPA stopped researchers from mitigating frost damage to crops by using a special kind ...
Blackouts
Power Outages: California, Texas, next the U.S?
California was the object of ridicule last year when residents experienced widespread power outages due to high temperatures and wildfires. Now, during an historic cold spell, Texas is under fire for an energy infrastructure that left much of the state without power. The finger pointing will go on for months ...
Blog
Winners and Losers – February 19
Tim Anaya, Senior Director of Communications and PRI’s Sacramento Office Winner: Baseball Fans – With all the awful news we are bombarded with these days, baseball fans were cheered by pitchers and catchers reporting this week to Arizona or Florida for spring training. Now, if we can only actually watch ...
Blog
Lessons from New Mexico Show How Fracking Moratorium Could Harm California’s Economy
During the heated Vice-Presidential Debate, Vice President Mike Pence charged that a Biden-Harris Administration planned to ban the practice of fracking altogether. Then-Senator Kamala Harris said in response that no such plans existed. At stake were thousands of key votes of gas and oil workers from the heartland and key ...
California
Sacramento Conference: Water Panel
Watch a panel of water experts and policymakers discuss the course the Biden Administration will likely chart on California water policy.
Blog
Winners and Losers – February 5
Tim Anaya, Senior Director of Communications and PRI’s Sacramento Office Winner: Liz Cheney – Moviegoers who watched 2018 film “Vice” – which the filmmakers intended to be a hatchet job, but I thought was actually superhero movie – learned not to mess with Dick Cheney or his family. However critical ...
Blog
Lessons from the Left Coast: The economic costs from adopting California’s approach to global climate change
All signs indicate that the Biden Administration is adopting California’s approach to global climate of prohibit, discourage, and subsidize. The prohibit plank refers to punishing the politically disfavored energy sources of nuclear and natural gas. California has punished nuclear power generation by shuttering the San Onofre Nuclear Generating station in ...
San Diego’s Successful Desal Plant Should Be a Model for California Water Policy
Often the value of a plan or project can best be judged by its opposition. In the case of the proposed Poseidon desalination plant in Huntington Beach, the forces lined up against it are clear indicators that it’s a worthwhile enterprise. The Sierra Club calls the plant “rather pathetic,” “the ...
Suppressing Progress
By Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. and John Cohrssen Over the weekend, the FDA issued an emergency-use authorization for Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, clearing the path to market for the third coronavirus vaccine. The FDA had previously approved the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccines in record time—mere weeks after their ...
EV Mandates — More CopyCal Moves from Washington
Among Pres. Biden’s first executive orders was to replace the entire fleet of federal vehicles with electric vehicles — about 645,000 in all according to the General Services Administration. He claimed that it would create one million autoworker jobs in the U.S. Chock up another win for the Golden State, ...
Dr. Henry Miller Talks Agriculture Protections, Biden’s EPA Nomination
Dr. Henry Miller, M.S., M.D. talks about how the Biden administrations nomination for secretary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be a detriment to helping agriculture survive extreme weather events. Miller talks about how the EPA stopped researchers from mitigating frost damage to crops by using a special kind ...
Power Outages: California, Texas, next the U.S?
California was the object of ridicule last year when residents experienced widespread power outages due to high temperatures and wildfires. Now, during an historic cold spell, Texas is under fire for an energy infrastructure that left much of the state without power. The finger pointing will go on for months ...
Winners and Losers – February 19
Tim Anaya, Senior Director of Communications and PRI’s Sacramento Office Winner: Baseball Fans – With all the awful news we are bombarded with these days, baseball fans were cheered by pitchers and catchers reporting this week to Arizona or Florida for spring training. Now, if we can only actually watch ...
Lessons from New Mexico Show How Fracking Moratorium Could Harm California’s Economy
During the heated Vice-Presidential Debate, Vice President Mike Pence charged that a Biden-Harris Administration planned to ban the practice of fracking altogether. Then-Senator Kamala Harris said in response that no such plans existed. At stake were thousands of key votes of gas and oil workers from the heartland and key ...
Sacramento Conference: Water Panel
Watch a panel of water experts and policymakers discuss the course the Biden Administration will likely chart on California water policy.
Winners and Losers – February 5
Tim Anaya, Senior Director of Communications and PRI’s Sacramento Office Winner: Liz Cheney – Moviegoers who watched 2018 film “Vice” – which the filmmakers intended to be a hatchet job, but I thought was actually superhero movie – learned not to mess with Dick Cheney or his family. However critical ...
Lessons from the Left Coast: The economic costs from adopting California’s approach to global climate change
All signs indicate that the Biden Administration is adopting California’s approach to global climate of prohibit, discourage, and subsidize. The prohibit plank refers to punishing the politically disfavored energy sources of nuclear and natural gas. California has punished nuclear power generation by shuttering the San Onofre Nuclear Generating station in ...
