State of California secondary Archives: on Environment

Carly Fiorina: Protect families, not just fish and flies and frogs

Fiorina: Well certainly there are many reasons for a rational regulatory policy. But unfortunately we see too many cases where regulations have run amok, and they are costing us jobs. Let us just start with the most obvious example: that of water in our great Central Valley. In 2008, a nameless, faceless bureaucrat decided that the smelt was endangered. The remedy for this was to turn the water off flowing through the pumps in the delta, and with that decision, hundreds of thousands of acres lay fallow, tens of thousands of people at the height of it were out of work. Of course it is important to protect our environment, it is important to protect our fish and our flies and our frogs, all which are endangered in California, but it's important to protect our families as well.

Carly Fiorina: Account for social & economic impact of Endangered Species

Fiorina: When we have something like the Endangered Species Act--just one example--of course we need to protect our endangered species. But when, by statute, that law requires someone to disregard all social and economic impact; in other words, when the regulation says that we should protect species at any cost, and we are costing people jobs, which is what is happening today, then that would be an example of where I think common sense should, and compassion should prevail. And it's relevant, of course, because the Endangered Species Act has spawned many regulations in California, no pun intended, and it has made, for example, the building of new manufacturing facilities very difficult.

David Hadley: Protect wildlife corridors and marine areas

A steward of our environment, David Hadley also voted for greater enforcement restrictions that protect our state's marine areas as well as improved standards for measuring air pollution--and, he was the deciding committee vote to ban bullhooks used to inhumanely control elephants.

Delaine Eastin: Pushed landfill cleanup and innovative recycling

Jimmy Gomez: Fund river revitalization; fight for environmental justice

Jimmy Gomez: Protect endangered species; and protect animal shelters

Jimmy Panetta: Collaborate to protect of our coastline, farmland, & forests

As a member of the Advisory Council for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Jimmy has witnessed the importance of the collaboration between our marine research institutions and the health and well being of our oceans and marine life. Jimmy will build upon the work of Congressman Sam Farr to establish a recreation trail that will border the entire Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

John Chiang: Safeguard our vast and precious natural resources

John Cox: Blaming climate change for wildfires unacceptable

John Melendez: Promoting hemp will protect our amazing planet

Laura Smith: Excessive water restrictions hurts agricultural industry

Corruption by officials in Sacramento has led to the war on our farmers who provide Californians with its essential food supply. Corrupt and career politicians attack our farmers with excessive water restrictions and exorbitant financial burden, causing massive destruction to the agricultural industry and loss of jobs provided by these farmers. The impact trickles down to farmers' livestock supply and results in then being required to purchase food and livestock sources outside California.

Michele Bachmann: EPA rulemaking has been based on politics, not science

Coal is the source that brings 45% of America's electricity. What we're seeing is that a political agenda is being advanced instead of a scientific agenda. And this is leading to massive numbers of jobs being lost.

The president told us he wanted to be like Spain when it came to green job creation, and yet Spain has one of the highest levels of unemployment. The president is bringing that here in the United States. And I think tomorrow night, when the nation tunes in to the president, I'm afraid that we won't be seeing permanent solution. I'm afraid what we'll be seeing are temporary gimmicks and more of the same that he's given before.

Nanette Barragan: Fight to protect public health from big corporate polluters

Nanette will continue to fight to protect our public health. We need a representative who will not pander to big corporate polluters who put the health and safety of our communities at risk--raising asthma rates and respiratory illness and making climate change impacts worse. We owe it to our children to leave them a better planet than the one we inherited. We can and will move towards a sustainable future for our community by ending tax breaks for these polluters and using that money to create new, good-paying, renewable energy jobs and taking the positive steps to protect our community's health currently harmed by pollution.

Rick Perry: We reduced NO2 and ozone in TX without scientists dictating

PERRY: Let me tell you what I find compelling, is what we've done in Texas, using our ability to regulate our clean air. We cleaned up our air in the state of Texas, more than any other state in the nation during the decade. Nitrous oxide levels, down by 57%. Ozone levels down by 27%. That's the way you need to do it, not by some scientist somewhere saying, "Here is what we think is happening out there."