Posted on 10/07/2005 8:58:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
In a burst of green penmanship, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed 29 environmental bills into law Thursday on a wide range of issues.
One will require all new cars for sale in California starting in 2009 to display stickers explaining how many tons of global warming-causing gases they emit.
Another, from a Palo Alto lawmaker, bans sewage dumping and garbage burning from commercial ships within three miles of the coast. Others will require a study of the aging levee system in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, prohibit the use of experimental pesticides around schools, phase out mercury in industrial switches and require stores selling rechargeable batteries to take them back for recycling.
Schwarzenegger vetoed no environmental bills Thursday. Environmentalists said they were pleased, but noted they still await the fate of roughly 20 more bills, some more controversial. Schwarzenegger has until the end of the day Saturday to sign or veto all the bills that reached his desk this year.
``The governor signed a lot of good bills today to protect California's air, water and resources,'' said Bill Magavern, a senior representative at the Sierra Club's Sacramento headquarters. ``But we're still waiting to see what he will do with a number of the most important bills the Legislature sent to him.''
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Among them are measures to require farmers to report for the first time to the state the amount of groundwater they pump, force cosmetics companies to disclose potentially toxic chemicals in their products and allow the 20 counties along the coast and in the Bay Area to impose a new $6 fee on motor vehicle registration to fund coastal pollution programs.
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The bill was supported by the Natural Resources Defense Council and other eco-groups, and opposed by most Republican lawmakers and the California Motor Car Dealers Association.
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Yer makin' NYS look good, Arnie...
Never send a RINO to do a Republican's job.
I bet California Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief that McClintock isn't there to veto those bills.
Hardly.
Arnie is the best thing to happen for conservatives in California since George Deukmejian. He cut taxes and has defended Prop. 13. He has shown tremendous political courage by pushing his initiatives onto the ballot and taking on the increasingly powerful public employee unions. He deserves our support.
It's just a few more pennies for each affected party ...
... added to hundreds of such prior pennies .. and tons
of paperwork and widely-scattered regulations to have to
know about.
CA is doomed. This accelerates it.
> ... phase out mercury in industrial switches ...
Hg is used because it works exceedingly well. It is
reliable over extended time because it doesn't pit or
stick, like Ag contacts do. People will die because of
this.
> ... and require stores selling rechargeable batteries
> to take them back for recycling.
13 more small business will now exit CA.
> ... require farmers to report for the first time to
> the state the amount of groundwater they pump, ..
Is the state going to pay for the meters, which many
of these farmers won't already have?
> .. force cosmetics companies to disclose potentially
> toxic chemicals in their products ...
I'm sure cosmetics there already contain the "known
to the State of CA to cause cancer" warning. Cos prices
will now double so packages can be big enough to hold
the warnings.
> .. and allow the 20 counties along the coast and in
> the Bay Area to impose a new $6 fee on motor vehicle
> registration to fund coastal pollution programs.
Run for your lives CA residents.
He ran on this. When we voted for him, we all knew where he stood on these issues. IT WAS STILL BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAD.
When are you going to accept that McClintock hadn't a snowball's chance in hell of winning.
You know that's a good piece of work when it stays relevant and accurate for so long. Good job!
Never, because that is patently untrue and always was.
..and he ain't done yet!
Special 'lection looming.
He did? .. tsk tsk tsk
Don't blame me..I voted for Captain Morgan.
Thanks much! It's hard to believe it's been two years since SCB started. What a wild ride it's been... :o)
You live in Maryland. Did you live in California during the election?
IT WAS STILL BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAD.
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True, but when the Titanic started to take on water , it really didn't matter whose hands here at the helm.
As far as legiclation, they won;t do much of anything that will help to address the state's governmental spending issues and continuing addiction to spend spend spend..
They are patronage and a part of an overall push by closet GReens (no longer in the closet, mind you) in high political offices,, and who appointed them?
How's life in Arizona since you moved? ;-)
but when the Titanic started to take on water , it really didn't matter whose hands here were at the helm.
It's great. Never have a moments regret.
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