Jul 28 - Governor Signs CIWMB Abolition Bill, Leaves Door Open on Agency for New Department


Submitted by Scott Smithline on July 28, 2009 - 16:29.

Earlier today, the Governor signed SB 63, a budget trailer bill that abolishes the California Integrated Waste Management Board and creates a new department called the Department of Natural Resources. In his signing message, the governor left the door open for determining whether the Natural Resources Agency or the California Environmental Protection Agency would be the more appropriate place for the new department.

The governor's signing message include the following paragraph:

"I proposed legislation earlier this year that would have distributed the Board’s responsibilities between the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Natural Resources Agency. The proposal approved by the Legislature instead shifts all of the Board’s functions to the Natural Resources Agency. While the crucial goal of eliminating the Board has been achieved, it is also of the utmost importance to ensure that the new Department most effectively serves its constituencies. To that end, I am directing my staff to work with the Legislature to make any changes to SB 63 necessary to ensure the measure best addresses my Administration’s environmental protection goals and that programmatic functions are housed in the most appropriate agency." 

 

 

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The governor did the right

Submitted by Yuri on January 14, 2010 - 22:17.

The governor did the right move. The pursuit of preserving our environment gained significant attention to most leaders, I believe that is what they suppose to do because we don’t want to put our life at stake because of our negligence specially the threat of global warming.  Anyway have you heard that  cap and dividend bill might work, but then again it might not.  The idea, similar to cap and trade, is that permits for carbon emissions have to purchased by manufacturers and other industries, and that money will be diverted, 30% going to research for reducing global warming (hopefully) by reducing carbon emissions, and the rest will go straight back to the consumers in the form of a dividends check