By Valerie Pacino
Clausewitz said that war is politics by other means. Big Chem knows that politics can be business by other means. You’ve got to hand it to them: they’ve used politics with astounding effectiveness to secure their bottom line. The …
Archive of posts tagged 2012 California Legislation
Toxic Money: Big Chem, Dirty Politics, and the Poison in Your Couch
Wasting Juvenile Justice Tax Dollars
By Selena Teji Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
California has demonstrated it no longer has the capacity to serve the state’s high-risk juvenile offenders by a 75% recidivism rate and continued scrutiny under the Farrell lawsuit, now in its n…
Groundbreaking Political Advertising Disclosure Bill Moves to Assembly Floor
By Trent LangeCalifornia Clean Money Campaign
Last week, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee voted AB 1148, the California DISCLOSE Act, to the Assembly floor for a full vote next Tuesday, January 31st. Coming two days before the sec…
Groundbreaking Political Advertising Disclosure Bill Moves to Assembly Floor
By Trent LangeCalifornia Clean Money Campaign
Last week, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee voted AB 1148, the California DISCLOSE Act, to the Assembly floor for a full vote next Tuesday, January 31st. Coming two days before the sec…
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Bill Advances to Assembly Floor
By Marty Omoto
Legislation that would significantly increase coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatments that private health insurers and managed health care plans are currently required to provide under state and federal mental health p…
Bill To Label GE Fish Fails in California Legislature
By Dan Bacher
You would think that a simple bill requiring the labeling of Frankenfish would pass easily through the California Legislature.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case, since Assemblymembers apparently beholden to the bioegineering and biote…
Fighting for Relief for Californians in Pain
By Assemblymember Jared Huffman
An Iraq war veteran suffering with chronic pain. A mother with fibromyalgia. A teenager with Lupus. The US Pain Foundation this week brings its traveling photo exhibit, The INvisible Project, to the Capitol in Sacrament…
