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SF Bay Area PSR Positions on Legislation
January 1–December 2007

(This is not a comprehensive list)

  • Letter to the City of San Mateo 3-5-07
    Expressed our support of the work of San Mateo Climate Action, and added our name to the request that the council undertake a systematic effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city of San Mateo.

  • AB 719 (Devore) 4-9-07
    Opposed—A bill to lift California’s ban on the siting of new nuclear plants in California, which would threaten serious health and economic impacts to California residents, on whose fragile and seismically active coasts radioactive waste continues to accumulate.

  • Letter to the Mayor of Redwood City 4-20-07
    Expressed our support of the Cool Cities Initiative and added our name to the request that the council undertake a systematic effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Redwood City.

  • Letter to the US Department of Energy 5-11-07
    Commented on the Revised Environmental Assessment regarding the proposed construction and operation of a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facility at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and expressed a number of major concerns about the plans for establishing a BSL-3 facility at LLNL, and about the planned proliferation of similar operations throughout the DOE complex. These comments centered on the threat of such programs being in violation of the biological weapons convention, and potentially contributing to a new global biological arms race.

  • Letter to the University of California Board of Regents 5-14-07
    Expressed support that a resolution be introduced for consideration at the May 17th Regents meeting in San Francisco, calling for full and immediate severance of the UC system from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), on grounds including the fact that the Reliable Replacement Warhead program and LANL’s ongoing preparations to conduct plutonium pit manufacturing, both clearly violate explicit US treaty obligations spelled out under Article VI of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

  • SB 651 (Calderon) 5-31-07
    Opposed—A “spot” bill sponsored by the major faucet companies through their national association, Plumbing Manufacturer’s Institute (PMI), which would gut an important 2006 public health law that will lower our future exposure to lead in our tap water plumbing.

  • AB 514 (Lieber) Preventing “Popcorn Lung” Disease 6-1-07
    Supported—A bill that will require the California Occupational Safety and Heath Standards Board to adopt a standard that prohibits the use of diacetyl flavoring in the workplace by 2010. While currently, there are no limits or standards governing the use of diacetyl in the workplace, workers in California, and elsewhere, have incurred severe, permanent and disabling lung illness, bronchiolitis obliterans, linked by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to their exposure to this chemical.

  • AB 515 (Lieber) Equal Protection of Workers Exposed to Toxics 6-1-07
    Supported—A bill that will require the California Occupational Safety and Heath Standards Board to adopt revised or new standards by 2010 for any hazardous substance in the workplace for which there is an existing quantitative risk assessment prepared or published by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). This important bill would close a loophole that currently permits workers to be exposed to toxic chemicals in the workplace in amounts that cause cancer or reproductive harm or other chronic health effects.

  • AB 1046 (Leno) 6-5-07
    Supported—A bill that would require that the California Energy Commission’s analysis of California’s nuclear power plants be completed before the state’s investor-owed utilities can use additional ratepayer funding for license renewal preparation or applications.

  • Letter to Senator Feinstein 6-20-07
    Requested that as Senator Feinstein considers the Senate’s version of the Energy and Water Appropriations bill, she uphold the funding cuts to the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program made by the House of Representatives.

  • Letter to Paul H. Gosselin, Chief Deputy Director California Department of Pesticide Regulation Re: Proposed Regulation #07-002 7-12-07
    Urging the Department of Pesticide Regulation to strengthen the draft "Field Fumigant Emissions Reductions" regulations.

  • Letter to Kelli Okuma, Executive Officer Structural Pest Control Board 7-18-07
    Supporting efforts by the Structural Pest Control Board to promote Integrated Pest Management certification for structural pest control professionals.

  • AB 493 (Ruskin) 12-07
    Supported--California Clean Car Discount to Reduce Global Warming Pollution: A bill to help make cleaner cars, trucks, and SUVs more affordable through rebates of up to $2500 on the purchase of new vehicles that emit low levels of global warming pollution.

This was our position on the legislation as it was written on June 28, 2007. If you would like to keep up to date on legislation, go to the State of California website http://www.legislature.ca.gov/, or the Library of Congress for federal legislation http://thomas.loc.gov/, or contact your local governments for any local legislation.