Regulations

CARB Wants To Take On Vast New Powers

CalWatchdog Staff February 2, 2011

FEB 3, 2011 By LLOYD BILLINGSLEY On Wednesday UC Santa Cruz environmental studies professor Timothy P. Duane addressed an audience at the University of California Sacramento Center on the “Greening of the Grid.” His lecture also provided a revelation of

Europe Backtracks On Green Cash

CalWatchdog Staff January 28, 2011

Katy Grimes: With Europe rolling back massive subsidies on unaffordable green technology, it’s difficult not to ask why California lawmakers are not paying closer attention to the economic disaster European countries are now trying to reverse. Spain announced recently that

Are Coastal Cops Coming Soon?

Anthony Pignataro January 27, 2011

JAN. 27, 2010 It was most interesting to read that Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, is calling for regulatory reform. “I always think that good policy makes for good politics,” he says in the Jan. 21 Sacramento Bee.

Green Tech Guru's Apostasy

CalWatchdog Staff January 25, 2011

JAN. 25, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A Green Tech Martin Luther may have emerged in California, but the state is unlikely to convert to his brand of economic religion. On Oct. 31, 1517, the Catholic monk Martin Luther posted his

Attack Of The Hair Resources Board

Anthony Pignataro January 19, 2011

JAN. 19, 2011 The California Air Resources Board (CARB) can be a scary place. Failing to file a diesel emissions facility report can earn a company $30,000 in fines. Selling a motorcycle that doesn’t meet state air regulations – even

It's Illegal to Doubt Global Warming

John Seiler: A little-known codicil of AB 32 makes it illegal to question the existence of global warming or AB 32 itself. AB 32 is the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, signed into law by since-departed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Building Ivory Fortresses

Anthony Pignataro January 12, 2011

JAN. 12, 2011 By the now, the important details are well known: on Saturday, Jan. 8, Jared Lee Loughner, for reasons only he knows, allegedly walked up to Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a public gathering in front of a

2-Month Driver's License Wait

CalWatchdog Staff January 7, 2011

John Seiler: Remember how Arnold promised to get rid of the long lines and incompetence at the DMV? For a while, things got better. Then he went on his “Terminate California” kick, spending wildly and imposing AB 32. Here’s the

New Mexico Drops "Green" Regs

CalWatchdog Staff January 6, 2011

Katy Grimes: New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has kept an important campaign promise to drop restrictive new regulations forcing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as other controversial rules passed in the final days of the previous administration. The

Arnold Still Clueless

CalWatchdog Staff January 2, 2011

John Seiler: In office seven years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzendeficit still doesn’t realize why he couldn’t end the “crazy deficit spending” he pledged his honor to end. This is shown by an interview he conducted with the L.A. Times, which is