SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today led a coalition of 17 attorneys general and the City of New York in filing a lawsuit challenging
California Gov. Gavin Newsom campaigned on bringing single-payer to the Golden State. But that effort largely fizzled once he took office in 2019, thanks to hostility from the Trump administration, the high cost of single-payer, and the pandemic.
Becerra s nomination has energized California lawmakers, including Canadian-born Assembly member Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, to put single-payer back on the state s agenda.
New York could also send a waiver application Becerra s way. In 2018, the state Assembly passed legislation that would have established single-payer in the Empire State. The bill did not gain traction in the then Republican-controlled state Senate. But a slew of progressive lawmakers elected this fall might breathe new life into the effort.
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17 states sue EPA for declining to tighten air pollution standards Source: By Rachel Frazin, The Hill • Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2021
A coalition of 17 states and New York City are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its decision not to tighten major air pollution standards.
The petition for review of the decision to retain current standards for fine particulate matter didn’t detail the states’ legal arguments.
However, a press release from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s (D) office said that they are arguing that the EPA “conducted a flawed and unlawfully biased review” and that “the available science clearly demonstrates the need for the EPA to strengthen the [standard].”
Daily on Energy: Is the U.S. oil lobby shifting on carbon pricing? Print this article
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API SHIFT: Is the American Petroleum Institute laying the groundwork to support putting a price on carbon?
It was lost in coverage of API’s State of the American Energy event yesterday, but the largest U.S. oil and gas lobby group tweaked its rhetoric around carbon pricing.
“Market-based policies can foster meaningful emissions reductions across the economy at the lowest societal cost,” reads an API
Sessions rammed through zero tolerance border policy despite warnings on family separation: Watchdog Print this article
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions knew that migrant families at the border would be torn apart as a result of implementing the zero tolerance policy but pushed the plan despite pleas from senior government officials, according to a new inspector general report.
A Justice Department audit released Thursday concluded that Sessions and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein advanced a plan to prosecute all adults who illegally crossed the border, knowing that it would prompt thousands of children to be temporarily orphaned. The DOJ leaders wrongly assumed the courts and federal agencies, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, would be able to accommodate the influx of people.