California moves to pre-empt Trump on environment, endangered species

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

Needling President Donald Trump and bracing for a rollback of Obama-era environmental protections, Democrats in the nation’s most populous state are launching a preemptive strike.

California lawmakers are expected Thursday to propose legislation to fold existing federal air, water and endangered species standards into state law, sources said, enshrining pre-Trump levels of protection in California regardless of any reversal at the federal level.

The legislation, to be introduced by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León and other Democratic senators, would require state air and water pollution regulators to maintain environmental standards at least as stringent as federal law required before Trump took office. And it would add state-level protections for species currently listed as endangered or threatened on the federal Endangered Species Act.

In an effort to impede the Trump administration from transferring federal lands to private developers for oil drilling or other purposes, Democratic lawmakers are also expected to propose a bill to give the State Lands Commission right of first refusal on such transactions.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2017/02/california-moves-to-pre-empt-trump-on-environment-endangered-species-109820

[mobeau69]

1. Good.

Fuck drumpf's shoes.

[Aristus]

2. I'm wondering if the repukes are going to end up with a states-rights nation of a kind they

hadn't intended.

We all know that right-wingers only talk states-rights when a Democrat is in the White House. When some right-wing hose-head has slithered into the nation's capital, all of a sudden, repukes are all about the stringent Federal regulation of everything they don't like.

Well now it looks like the states in the above-average half of America are embracing states-rights as a progressive measure, and as a 'fuck you' to the conservatives.

[JudyM]

6. "States' rights" is just used to justify their weasling out of anything they dislike. It doesn't

seem to be that authentic a concern. For example, when MA legalized gay marriage, they freaked out. It's the same way they look at their other "values" - for the most part, these values are merely instrumental, as opposed to being genuinely, deeply held.

Hypocrites. And shameless about it.

[SunSeeker]

3. Good! I love California!

[MFM008]

4. I know our governor wants to

Jay Inslee will do what he can.
We need that blue west coast wall against repukes.

[lark]

5. Right on California!

I am so proud of my old state. Still hoping they, WA and OR secede and I will sell my home, buy a trailer and move to my friends' property near Tahoe.