By Ryan Sabalow and Jermia Kimelman Sen. Lena Gonzalez represents an industrial district that includes Long Beach, where poor neighborhoods suffer from pollution. She has a 100 percent rating from environmental groups that praise her for taking on the Big Oil lobby in Sacramento. It was surprising for her, though, when the state’s powerful building […]
Two-thirds of the bills opposed by the oil industry this year were killed, thanks in part to an alliance with the building trades union, forcing Democrats to sometimes choose between jobs and the environment. Story from @CalMatters.
California lawmakers blocked two big environmental bills Thursday: One that would have ramped up the state’s emissions targets and another that would have made oil companies liable.