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2007 California Environmental Scorecard
Year In Review
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The governor’s post-partisan vision barely made it past his State of the State speech before the Capitol’s worst-kept secret became obvious: his fellow Republicans in the legislature really won’t follow his lead. That was demonstrated most glaringly when Senate Republicans held up enactment of the state budget for 53 days despite Schwarzenegger’s pleas for their support. The more he pleaded, the less they supported.
Even AB 32 was a distraction. The governor signed global warming agreements with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He addressed the United Nations General Assembly. He appeared on the cover of Newsweek with the whole wide world in his hands. Not to be outdone, Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, the author of AB 32, jetted to Davos, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Summit. It turns out the post-partisan world was in New York and Davos, not in Sacramento.
What Got Done
Amid all the distractions, what was accomplished in 2007? Of the 24 bills scored in this year’s Scorecard, the legislature sent 16 to the governor’s desk, and 10 were signed into law, including:
- AB 70 (Jones), SB 5 (Machado), and SB 17 (Florez), a package of flood control bills that will limit development in flood plains and expand liability for flood damage resulting from improper development in flood plains.
- AB 1108 (Ma), which bans the use of toxic phthalate chemicals in toys.
- AB 821 (Nava), which bans the use of lead bullets in the California condor’s range.
- AB 1470 (Huffman), to incentivize the installation of home solar hot water heaters.
- SB 719 (Machado), to strengthen the board governing air pollution reduction in the San Joaquin Valley.
- AB 118 (Núñez), which creates $210 million in new annual funding to develop and commercialize clean alternative fuels and to reduce vehicular air pollution.
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