Attention CCTA and Western Trucking Alliance Members.
The California Highway Patrol will host a Commercial Vehicle Safety Summit on September 26, 2013, at the Double Tree Hotel in Ontario California.
During the Summit, the third consecutive Safe Transportation Achievement Recognition (STAR) awards will be presented.
Motor carriers interested in applying for a STAR award may access the application and scoring criteria on the California Highway Patrol Internet Web site at http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/stars.html.
Questions regarding the Summit or the STAR awards should be directed to the California Highway Patrol, Commercial Vehicle Section, at (916) 843-3400
LOS ANGELES, June 14, 2012—After 35 years at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. James E. Enstrom is suing UCLA to keep his job. Following many years of disagreement over research on air pollution and its implications for environmental regulations, UCLA finally refused to reappoint Enstrom after he engaged in successful whistleblowing against a member of the department. When UCLA told Enstrom he was being let go because his research failed to accord with the department's "mission," Enstrom turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.
"FIRE has been helping Dr. Enstrom to keep his job for two years now, but enough is enough," said FIRE President Greg Lukianoff. "While a lawsuit should never have been necessary, we're grateful that the American Center for Law and Justice and former FIRE President David French have filed suit on Dr. Enstrom's behalf, and we hope that justice will finally be served."
California's environmental laws have made industrial development increasingly difficult—to the extent that they are now interfering with other green priorities. Witness the request by the state's High-Speed Rail Authority to seek a legislative waiver against green lawsuits, of all things.
"I'd like to be in a world where, if we're before a judge somewhere, the remedies available for the judge go to mitigation as opposed to injunctive relief," Authority Chairman Dan Richard told the state legislature last month.
State regulators with the California Energy Commission are expected to approve stringent energy efficiency standards for new residential and commercial buildings Thursday.
The new standards, which would take effect Jan. 1, 2014, include a host of common-sense standards designed to save energy, from insulating hot-water pipes to making sure that air conditioner installations are inspected for sufficient air flow.
But the proposed standards also require new homes and commercial buildings to have "solar ready roofs" -- a mandatory requirement that will be a boon for the state's growing rooftop solar industry.
California Air Resources Board (CARB) met on Thursday, May 24. On the agenda was discussion toward deciding where and how to spend the billions raised from cap-and-trade carbon trading in the state.
At the public meeting was Betty Plowman, who attended the meeting to present a letter on behalf of the industries that CARB calls polluters. The letter describes CARB’s threats to these industries, induced by the Board’s regulations that are, in turn, based on junk science. The letter’s signatories indicate intention to seek reparations for the regulated class under CARB’s repression in California.
Trucks that stream up and down our nation's highways are the lifeblood of commerce in America. Businesses that operate certain classes of trucks, particularly small and medium-size operations face a new and dangerous threat.
It's not crumbing roads and bridges nor skyrocketing fuel prices, but heavy-handed bureaucrats at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.pacificlegal.org
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