Regulations

Mother’s Market promotes Prop. 37 GMO labeling

Aug. 21, 2012 By John Seiler When shopping yesterday at the Huntington Beach health-food store Mother’s Market, which I’ve patronized for 25 years, they promoted this flyer from the store: “LET’S MAKE HISTORY!” it says, by passing Proposition 37, the

Brown Admin attacks climate ‘deniers’

Joseph Perkins August 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012 By Joseph Perkins “Climate change,” declares the home page for the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, “poses an immediate threat to California’s economy, environment, and to public health.” The Brown administration is “taking action” to avert

Report: carbon emissions lowest in 20 years!

CalWatchdog Staff August 17, 2012

Aug. 17, 2012 Katy Grimes: Apparently the big news that the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the United States has fallen to the lowest level in 20 years, hasn’t yet reached the desk of Mary Nichols,

California’s Global Regulatory Regime

CalWatchdog Staff August 16, 2012

(Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a series on how California’s regulations affect the global economy. Part I is available here.) Aug. 16, 2012 By John Hrabe California’s regulations aren’t just a California problem. When the state’s obscure Office

These bills would kill even more Calif. jobs

CalWatchdog Staff August 15, 2012

Aug. 15, 2012 By Dave Roberts California’s official unemployment rate in June was 10.7 percent, third highest in the country. It’s been in double digits for 42 straight months. When those who have stopped looking for work or are underemployed

Brown’s and CARB’s Tahoe-ist Environmentalism Killing Jobs

CalWatchdog Staff August 14, 2012

Aug. 14, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Gov. Jerry Brown once dabbled in the concept of “Tao” in Zen Buddhist religion. William Voegeii says that what explains Jerry Brown’s “Tao” is his rejection of his father’s values. But it isn’t Brown’s,

CARB audit request killed by Democrats

CalWatchdog Staff August 10, 2012

Aug. 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board seems to be on everyone’s list of what not to do in state government. Charged with implementing AB 32, the California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, CARB is

Companies will exploit Cap and Trade

CalWatchdog Staff August 9, 2012

Aug. 9, 2012 By John Seiler Anti-capitalists always complain that entrepreneurs exploit loopholes in all those nice laws liberals and progressives pass to help the environment, the baby seals, the rain forests, etc. You can bet that will happen with

Calif. regs killing lumber manufacturers

CalWatchdog Staff July 31, 2012

July 31, 2012 By Katy Grimes California’s private forest lands are some of the most productive in the world. But state regulation of timber harvesting practices have become so overbearing and complex that the industry is losing lumber manufacturers by

California exports regulations worldwide

CalWatchdog Staff July 26, 2012

(Editor’s Note: The first part in a two-part series on how California’s regulations affect the global economy.) July 26, 2012 By John Hrabe Regulations are killing California’s global competitiveness. Or, so you’ve heard from policymakers left, right and center. “Our