The California Petroleum Holding Bill is responsible for climate disasters

Shortly after lethal fires lit in Los Angeles County in January, the lawmakers of California introduced bills on bill Strengthening penalties for arson and other related crimesS A controversial measure – which has the support of almost every environmental organization in California – also strives to attract oil companies responsible for fires and climate disasters.

The bill failed to advance last week, but not because of the fierce opposition from the oil companies. More recently – in another example of How big oil wins in a country known for being a “climate leader” – it was A great deal of work that played a huge role in blocking the billS

Calm Ryan Sabalow Explains, Sen.’s proposal Wiener would allow the victims and insurers of fire Sue Petroleum Companies to Cause Climate DisastersS At the hearing of the Senate Judicial Committee last week, democrat in San Francisco claims that destructive fires in the winter have become the “new normal in California.”

• Wiener: “And now who pays for these climate disasters?… We pay for them.”

The only major political donor supporting the proposal was the California Federation of Teachers, which gave at least $ 2.5 million to legislators from 2015, according to Calmatters. ” Digital democracy database.

Fossil fuel companies, as well as other business groups, insisted on the bill. But the largest donors in opposition were unions, which gave a total of $ 12 million to lawmakers in the last decade.

• Chris HananPresident of the Council of the California Council for the construction and construction of the state: “The terrible, terrible policy of this bill. And this puts our work at risk and puts our condition in danger.”

Compared to other lobbying organizations, Unions are doing better In the adoption or dispersal of the legislation that complies with their program and approximately a quarter of the legislature, it is composed of current or former members of the Union. At the hearing, the committee of the judiciary, mostly drawn up by Democrats from professional works, rejected the measure.

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By a Calfatters Capitol reporter Alexey Kossef:

Another tax season ended this week without any sign of tax returns that the Gavin News government once promised to make public.

Now more than three years have passed by Newsom – who said before he went into office In 2019, he will be the first governor to release his tax documents annually – he shared them.

CalMatters reported in November, against the backdrop of renewed control of the governor’s finances after buying at the Marin County House of $ 9 million, which Newsom Last made a tax return in March 2022.S This disclosure came during his re-election campaign, according to a State Law signed by Newsom himself, which requires the governor candidates to release their five latest income tax declarations.

With the arrival of the deadline for filing taxes on Tuesday For most CaliforniansCalmatters followed with the Newsom team for his bet. Spokesman Nathan Click said the governor would eventually allow reporters to review their subsequent tax returns but did not provide a time line.

In what the National Union of Health Workers considers the longest mental health strike in US history, mental health workers in southern California Kaiser Permanta are close to entering their sixth month of impactwrites Calmatters’ Joe GarciaS

Their demands Include costs of increasing the costs of living, reimbursement of retirement benefits and more time between therapeutic patient tracking sessions. In March, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Mark Gali and former mayor of Sacramento Darrell Steinberg agreed to mediateBut Union’s negotiators voted shortly after the conversations stopped when they claim that Kaiser declined to examine the three main contractual questions.

Negotiations for negotiations on Tuesday – three days after Kaiser’s mental health staff ended with their hungry strike on April 12. For five days, eight workers achieved in the Western Hollywood Church were sleeping on air mattresses and withstanding water and electrolytes.

• Adriana webA member of the Union: “Kaiser is trying to starve us, this is clear – so, give them what they want. I feel hungry for justice. I feel hungry for change. How is this different?”

Kaiser spokesman Terry Kanaks said the company’s goal is to reach an agreement that makes Kaiser the best place to provide and receive care, but that the union “has made very little movement on key problems with income in the last nine months.

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As salmon population continues to decline in the Central Valley rivers, the Pacific Fishing Council has issued its decision on Tuesday whether to close the fishing season of commercial salmon in California. Understand What did the CalMatters’ agency decide Alastair BlandS