By John Garamendi •
April 8, 2009
By California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi: At an event last month, I joined environmentalists and California Assembly members to promote a package of bills that will help provide a model the rest of the country can follow. If the bills pass the legislature and are signed into law, California will once again demonstrate trailblazing environmental leadership, phasing out the production of disposable plastic bags, polystyrene packaging, endocrine disruptor bisphenol-A, cigarette butts, and removable bottle caps, all of which blight our [...]
By John Garamendi •
March 11, 2009
After extensive meetings with commission members and stakeholders, and after a thorough examination of the final report, I am convinced that California should consider the creation of targeted tax incentives for small green businesses.
By John Garamendi •
March 11, 2009
Editors Note: This is a guest contribution from the Lieutenant Governor of California, John Garamendi.
As a lifelong Central Valley rancher, I know all too well that our food supply and energy demands are interconnected. When California faced record high gas prices last summer, my small ranch felt the impact when we received bills for transportation costs.
Our state’s seemingly yearly succession of droughts, a phenomenon predicted by current understandings [...]
