Daily Green

Good afternoon, all. In today's news:

• House panel slashes funding to high speed rail;
• Brown seeks to bypass environmental challenges;
• Coastal Commission gets new executive director;
• and much, much more...

Top of the Ticket

Los Angeles Times 9/8/11
Bill would let governor protect large projects from lengthy challenges
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-legislature-20110909,0,27577.story

Los Angeles Times 9/8/11
California bullet train funding slashed by House panel
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/california-high-speed-rail-federal-funding-cut.html

SF Gate 9/9/11
Coastal Commission gets new executive director
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/08/BA251L234I.DTL

California Environmental News

Greenspace 9/8/11
Auto shredder to pay $2.9 million to settle toxic waste case
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/09/toxics-agency-settles-with-auto-shredder.html

Sacramento Bee 9/9/11
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers keeps levee-tree policy despite report, hints at flexibility
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/09/3895728/us-army-corps-of-engineers-keeps.html

Fresno Bee 9/8/11
PG&E begins cleanup of Kerman solar plant
http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/09/08/2530533/pge-begins-cleanup-of-kerman-solar.html

The Independent 9/9/11
Google emits around 1.5m tonnes of CO2 per year, about the same as the UN
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-emits-around-15m-tonnes-of-co2-per-year-about-the-same-as-the-un-2351681.html

Los Angeles Times 9/8/11
California joins suit against Inland Empire warehouse project
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pollution-suit-20110909,0,6848007.story

State Politics

Capitol Alert 9/9/11
California Legislature sends NFL stadium bill to Brown
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/09/california-legislature-sends-n.html

Los Angeles Times 9/9/11
Jerry Brown's tax plan still in legislative limbo
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2011/09/jerry-browns-tax-plan-still-in-legislative-limbo.html

Capitol Alert 9/9/11
Democrats move to shift initiatives to November ballot
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/09/bill-language-to-move-2012-ini.html

Fox & Hounds 9/9/11
Special Session for Overall Tax Reform is a Good Idea
http://foxandhoundsdaily.com/blog/joel-fox/9415-special-session-overall-tax-reform-a-good-idea

Sacramento Bee 9/9/11
Dan Walters: New legislative bills grow in the dark
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/09/3895708/dan-walters-new-legislative-bills.html

National Environmental News

This Week In Earth 9/9/11
Snubbed: Obama's stance on smog standards and tar sands oil angers environmentalists
http://thisweekinearth.com/editions/2011_09_09/snubbed.html

Green 9/8/11
The Second-Warmest Summer on Record
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/the-second-warmest-summer-on-record/?ref=earth

USA Today 9/8/11
Quake's jolts were double nuke plant's design
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/story/2011-09-07/Quakes-jolts-were-double-nuke-plants-design/50304434/1

New York Times 9/7/11
GAO Audit Sparks Battle Over Attorneys' Fees in Environmental Cases
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/09/07/07greenwire-gao-audit-sparks-battle-over-attorneys-fees-in-35436.html

International Environmental News

BBC 9/7/11
Warning over global cancer levels
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14819396

This Week In Earth 9/9/11
Space Waste: Danger grows as orbital debris proliferates
http://thisweekinearth.com/editions/2011_09_09/space-waste.html

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