CA Republican Senators are trying to block enforcement of global warming considerations in a recent development. As you know, the budget is held up. One of the reasons has to do with the California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA. Attorney General Jerry Brown has filed a lawsuit against San Berandino County, saying that the new general plan does not address global warming. This has the oil companies and big developers worried – and they have gotten the Republicans in the Senate to refuse to pass the state budget without a rider to eliminate all enforcement of global warming considerations as part of CEQA reviews until 2012.

Republican Abel Maldonado, one of our local state Senators, is the most likely to back away from this demand – because he represents a district that voted 53% for Barbara Boxer in 2004. Your help is urgently needed to put pressure on Abel through the media and calls to his office.

Map of Maldonado’s district: http://www.calvoter.org/voter/maps/senate/SD15.pdf

Contact info:
San Jose: 408-277-9461

Sacramento: 916-651-4015
Website: http://republican.sen.ca.gov/web/15