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From the LA Times blog (Jordan Rau)--excerpted:

A firm connection in global warming
When the Schwarzenegger administration this week announced the 14 members of the Market Advisory Committee, a new panel created to help the California Air Resources Board enact this year's Global Warming Solutions Act, there were a slew of details about the chairman:
Winston Hickox is former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency. As Secretary of Cal/EPA, Hickox was instrumental in the enactment of legislation requiring new greenhouse gas emission standards for cars. He also established ...
One pertinent biographical detail, however, was left out: Hickox is a partner at California Strategies, the uber-influential government consulting, PR and lobbying firm founded by Bob White, the former chief of staff to Pete Wilson.
...Hickox said he was "not at all hesitant" to have California Strategies mentioned. He says he will be working on the firm's "existing book of business" and otherwise will concentrate on helping institutional investors learn from and replicate what California's public pension funds have done in terms of using their capital to address climate change issues.
Interestingly, California Strategies is in merger talks with another player in a major government endeavor: Smith, Watts & Co., whose partners D.J. Smith and Mark Watts are two of the biggest consultants and lobbyists on transportation issues in Sacramento. (The firm's former partner, Will Kempton, is director of Caltrans.) They helped design and get approved by voters this year's $20 billion transportation bond package. Now that it has passed, the state is going to have a huge influx of new money to be divvied up for roads, bridges, public transit systems and ports.
So with these two moves, California Strategies soon will include people with great connections and expertise concerning two of the biggest ventures the state of California is undertaking. We can already hear the clients queuing up at the door.