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Nov 7, 2012
Thank you, California

Thank you for voting. Thank you for talking to your friends and family about difficult, important issues. Thank you for listening to candidates and asking tough questions, and thank you for using your resources to support environmental protection.

And, most of all, thank you for taking part in another election with important victories for the environment in our great state of California.

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Oct 31, 2012
CLCV 2012 Scorecard Reveals Champions and Foes of Environmental Progress

Today CLCV released its annual California Environmental Scorecard, just days before the November 2012 General Election. The record of the votes (available at www.ecovote.org/scorecard/) reveals how members of the state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown performed on the most important environmental and public health bills in the 2012 legislative session.

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Oct 30, 2012
YES on 39: Close the Loophole, Invest in Clean Energy

Would you like to see a billion dollars of revenue restored to the state of California while 70,000 clean energy jobs are created? Vote YES on Proposition 39!

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Oct 19, 2012
Prop 32 is Yet Another Koch-Funded Fraud

This week the staff of CLCV was proud to join many of our allies in the environmental and labor movements, as well as state Senator Mark Leno, at an event where we declared our collective opposition to Proposition 32 on California's November 2012 ballot.

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Oct 18, 2012
CLCV Supporter Asks Chevron, Gets Reply (but no answer)

It's tough to get through to huge corporations like Chevron, but CLCV supporter Auros Harman from San Mateo decided to speak up anyway – and Chevron actually replied.

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Oct 1, 2012
Chevron Goes After Fran Pavley

I was watching tv the other night when it cut to commercial. Dark, ominous music started as a political ad described a sitting legislator running for re-election who was also an apparent tax dodger. This legislator made $261,000 last year and didn’t pay anything in taxes. Wow! That’s outlandish. And who was this legislator? State Senator Fran Pavley. Wait… what?

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Oct 1, 2012
Environmental Justice: Governor Brown signs SB 535 & AB 1532

In 2006, Californians celebrated the passage of the first comprehensive climate change law in the nation, the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32).  One of the goals of AB 32 is to ensure that low-income and minority communities are strengthened by efforts to tackle the climate crisis.

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Sep 26, 2012
Which is the Worst Oil Company of Them All?

There are so many ways to assess which oil company is truly the worst of the worst. It also depends on the day. You’ve got ExxonMobil who not only caused the infamous oil spill at Alaska’s Prince William Sound but is also one of the world’s biggest funders of the global warming denial campaign.

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Sep 25, 2012
Governor Signs Bills Protecting Parks and Making Clean Water a Human Right

On Tuesday, two environmental priorities cleared the final hurdle to become law. With Gov. Brown's signature, our state parks gained protection from closure, and access to clean, drinkable water became a human right in California.

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Sep 25, 2012
Governor Signs Election Day Voter Registration Bill

It's getting easier to register to vote in California--and that's a good thing for our democracy and our environment.

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