Regulations

Feinstein decries shakedown lawsuits

April 6, 2012 By Joseph Perkins The Consumer Attorneys of California caled themselves the Trial Lawyers Association before a name change in 1995. The trial lawyers just posted a video on YouTube, “Disability Access: Tips for the small business.” It’s

CA Energy Schemes: ‘We are getting fleeced’

CalWatchdog Staff April 5, 2012

April 5, 2012 By Katy Grimes The California Air Resources Board has created a stealthy new corporation in Delaware. The Western Climate Initiative Inc., which will manage cap-and-trade programs, even has its own form of currency. WCI Inc. says it exists “to perform

Skyscraper Goes Up in 15 Days

Joseph Perkins March 16, 2012

MARCH 16, 2012 Fifteen days. That’s how long it took developer Broad Sustainable Building to complete construction of a 30-story hotel. The near-miraculous feat has been attributed to a couple timesavers: The hotel’s foundation was laid out ahead of its

Democrats in the Legislature Chicken Out of Climate Debate With Lord Monckton

CalWatchdog Staff March 12, 2012

MAR. 12, 2012 By KATY GRIMES Despite the obvious shift in the climate change and global warming debate, Democratic politicians are trying to hold fast and furious onto the notion that man is causing potentially disastrous global warming through carbon

Government Nannies Attack Food Trucks

CalWatchdog Staff March 8, 2012

MARCH 9, 2012 By DAVE ROBERTS A food fight has broken out between a liberal Democratic assemblyman and a liberal Democratic San Francisco supervisor over the banning of food vending trucks near schools. It’s a battle of nanny government officials —

California Remedy For Eco-Guilt

Katy Grimes March 5, 2012

MAR. 5, 2012 While the Legislature has cavalierly passed global warming laws and companion legislation, they’ve done so without a clue about how the California Air Resources Board would actually achieve carbon emission reductions. It truly is a “if you

CARB ‘Rogue Agency’ Snubs Legislators

CalWatchdog Staff March 1, 2012

MAR. 1, 2012 By KATY GRIMES A Wednesday hearing in the Legislature to discuss pending state cap-and-trade auction revenues produced very few answers. But it did prove that no one in the state has a handle on the implementation of

Assemblyman Calls CARB Out

CalWatchdog Staff February 29, 2012

Katy Grimes: UPDATED: 3/1/2012 Assemblyman Brian Jones crisply expressed his frustration today at an Assembly Budget Committee hearing, when he called-out Mary Nichols for not attending the hearing. Nichols is the California Air Resources Board Director. “CARB is a rogue agency,”

Enviros Seek Gray Wolf Protection

CalWatchdog Staff February 28, 2012

Joseph Perkins: A single gray wolf was sighted on this side of the California-Oregon border this past December. On Monday, four environmental groups petitioned the state’s Fish and Game Commission to protect that lone wolf — and any others that

Obamacare Will Amputate California Dream

CalWatchdog Staff February 28, 2012

FEB. 28, 2012 by WAYNE LUSVARDI Rationing health care under Obamacare will end up politicizing and bankrupting the medical financing system, just as Medicare does. And there will be middle-class resistance to Obamacare when it is realized that this will