Environmental
Budget Trailer Proposal Brings Job Killer List to 21
The California Chamber of Commerce this week added a budget trailer proposal to its job killer list, bringing the total number of job killers...
Agency Official Explains How State Measures ‘Pollution Burden’
Arsenio Mataka, assistant secretary for environmental justice and tribal affairs in the California Environmental Protection Agency, explains to the CalChamber Environmental Policy Committee on...
Latest Draft Prop. 65 Rules Take Steps Backwards
The latest proposed revisions to the state’s Proposition 65 warning regulations are problematic and unworkable, the California Chamber of Commerce and a broad coalition...
Call for Interviewees: Research Project on CEQA Litigation and Public Engagement
A team of University of Southern California graduate students is analyzing the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to better understand whether CEQA litigation amounts...
CalChamber Backs Bills to Speed Water Supply Solutions
The California Chamber of Commerce is supporting a number of bills to expedite and reduce costs for water storage facilities, drought mitigation measures and...
CalChamber, Coalition Continue to Voice Concerns on Draft Prop. 65 Warning Rules
Although improved since previous iterations, proposed revisions to the Proposition 65 warning regulations by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) continue to...
Environmental: CalChamber Stops Worst Bills, Secures Changes to Others
The California Chamber of Commerce actively engaged in environmental legislation this year, positioning on dozens of bills related to hazardous waste permitting, Proposition 65,...
State Proposals Would Increase Litigation, Number of Warnings Under Proposition 65
Four pre-regulatory proposals that would substantially increase the amount of Proposition 65 warnings, increase frivolous “shakedown” lawsuits, and unjustifiably weaken the scientific basis for...
Climate Change: CalChamber Stops, Delays or Amends All But 1 Bill Before It Passes
As the Senate and Assembly cleared their desks for this legislative session, the California Chamber of Commerce weighed in on 18 climate change bills;...
Job Killer Bill Will Cause Arbitrary Petroleum Cutback
An arbitrary and unrealistic reduction of petroleum use is a major consequence of a California Chamber of Commerce-opposed job killer bill pending before lawmakers.
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