For environmentalists, California s Legislature has been a bloodbath this year
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Workers sort plastic from a conveyor transporting cardboard and other recyclables at the Recology central recycling warehouse on Pier 96 in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020.Paul Chinn/The Chronicle
SACRAMENTO California is often seen as a national leader on eco-friendly policy, but environmentalists say that perception doesn’t match the brutal year they’ve faced in the state Legislature.
Nearly every major environmental measure at the Capitol has been killed or shelved this session, from a bill that would have required buffer zones around oil drilling sites near homes to another that would have required large corporations to report their greenhouse gas emissions.