2010 Advocacy
| Date | Action | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 11/10/2010 | CRRA Letter to Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors | Supporting Ordinance To Ban Plastic Bags |
| 10/14/2010 | CRRA Letter to San Jose Mayor & City Council | Supporting Ordinance To Ban Plastic Bags |
| 10/14/2010 | CRRA Letter to San Jose Planning Commission | Supporting Certification of EIR (Ordinance To Ban Plastic Bags) |
| 9/8/2010 | CRRA Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger | Supporting signing into law SB 1454 (DeSaulnier) Labeling standards for bio-plastics |
| 9/7/2010 | CRRA Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger | Supporting signing into law AB 2398 (Pérez) EPR for carpet and AB 1343 (Huffman) EPR for paint |
| 9/3/2010 | CRRA Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger | Supporting signing into law AB 737 (Chesbro) 75% and mandatory recycling |
| 6/23/2010 | CRRA Letter to Climate Action Reserve | Supporting Adoption of Composting Protocol |
| 6/16/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senator Simitian | Support if Amended AB 1998 (Browley) Bans single-use carry out bags |
| 5/19/2010 | CRRA Letter to FLorida Gov Charlie Crist | Veto HR 569 & SB 1052 repealing the ban on landfilling yard trimmings |
| 4/29/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senate Appropriations | Supporting SB 920 (Yee) White pages telephone directory opt-OUT |
| 4/29/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senate Appropriations | Supporting SB 1241 (Wolk) Grants for agricultural use of compost |
| 4/29/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senate Appropriations | Supporting SB 1454 (DeSaulnier) Labeling standards for bio-plastics |
| 4/29/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senate Appropriations | Supporting AB 1343 (Huffman) EPR for paint |
| 4/29/2010 | CRRA Letter to Assembly Appropriations | Supporting AB 2139 (Chesbro) EPR for pesticides, sharps & butane containers |
| 4/29/2010 | CRRA Letter to Assembly Appropriations | Supporting AB 2176 (Blumenfield) EPR for mercury-containing lamps |
| 4/29/2010 | CRRA Letter to Assembly Appropriations | Supporting AB 2398 (Perez) EPR carpet |
| 4/29/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senator Kehoe | Supporting SB 390 (Kehoe) Recycling Market Development |
| 4/20/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senate Appropriations | Supporting SB 1100 (Corbett) EPR for household batteries |
| 4/15/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senator Simitian | Supporting SB 1454 (DeSaulnier) Labeling standards for bio-plastics |
| 4/12/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senator Simitian | Supporting SB 1241 (Wolk) Grants for agricultural use of compost |
| 4/12/2010 | CRRA Letter to Assembly Member Chesbro | Supporting AB 2139 (Chesbro) EPR for pesticides, sharps & butane tanks |
| 4/6/2010 | CRRA Letter to Assembly Member Chesbro | Supporting AB 2398 (Perez) EPR for carpet |
| 4/6/2010 | CRRA Letter to Assembly Member Nava | Supporting AB 2176 (Blumenfield) EPR for mercury-containing lamps |
| 4/6/2010 | CRRA Letter to Senator Padilla | Supporting SB 920 (Yee) White pages telephone directory op-in |
| 4/6/2010 | Letter to US EPA signed by CRRA | Landfill Methane Outreach Program |
| 4/2/2010 | CRRA letter to Senator Simitian | Supporting SB 1100 (Corbett) EPR for household batteries |
| 3/2/2010 | CRRA letter to Governor Schwarzenegger | Supporting AB 7 (Evans) Restoring funding to California's Bottle Bill |
2010 Positions
| Bill # | Author |
Subject Note: CRRA positions are subject to change based on changes to legislative text. |
CRRA Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABX 87 | Assembly Budget Committee | Bottle Bill - Retroactively restores payments for core funding (signed by Governor in Feb 2010). | SUPPORT |
| AB 222 | Adams | Waste-to-energy - Would change statutory line between disposal and diversion, and grant diversion credit to conversion technologies that are currently defined as "transformation". | OPPOSE |
| AB 478 | Chesbro | Spot Bill - GHG Recycling and Waste Mgmt. | WATCH |
| AB 624 | Romero | Spot Bill. Potentially WTE language like AB 222. | WATCH |
| AB 737 | Chesbro | Requires statewide 75% diversion and mandatory commercial recycling (redundat w/AB 479) | SUPPORT |
| AB 903 | Chesbro | Single-use bags - Labeling of compostable single-use bags. | SUPPORT |
| AB 925 | Saldaña | Plastic bottles - Prohibit sale of single-use plastic beverage container with a cap that is not affixed. May be dead for 2010 | SUPPORT |
| AB 1004 | Portantino | Landfill financial assurance - Industry-sponsored spot bill. | WATCH |
| AB 1343 | Huffman | EPR - Paint | SUPPORT |
| AB 1358 | Hill | Take-out food packaging - Bans expanded polystyrene (EPS) take-out food packaging. | SUPPORT |
| AB 1998 | Brownley | Single-use bags - Ban plastic bags, at-cost charge for paper bags. | SUPPORT |
| AB 2137 | Chesbro | Compost - Labeling reqirements for compost (AB 856 clean-up) | WATCH |
| AB 2138 | Chesbro | Take-out food packaging & bags - Requires takeout food packaging and bags to be compatible with recycling infrastructure | WATCH |
| AB 2139 | Chesbro |
EPR - Single use food packaging Medical sharps Pesticide containers (residential use) Propane tank & Butane lighters (personal use) |
SUPPORT |
| AB 2176 | Blumenfield | EPR for mercury-containing lamps + fee on incandescents | SUPPORT |
| AB 2398 | John Perez | EPR - Carpet | SUPPORT |
| SB 25 | Padilla | Waste diversion - 60% diversion by local communities by 2015; 75% diversion statewide by 2020. | SUPPORT |
| SB 228 | DeSaulnier | Single-use bags - Compostable bags must carry a unique label. | SUPPORT |
| SB 390 | Kehoe | Recycling Market Developement - Changes to Revolving Loan Program. | SUPPORT |
| SB 531 | DeSaulnier | Single-use bags - Changes to in-store plastic bag recycling law. | OPPOSE |
| SB 803 | DeSaulnier | Plastic packaging - Declares the intent of the Legislature to mitigate the environmental impact of plastic packaging materials and reduce plastic waste disposed of in landfills. | WATCH |
| SB 920 | Yee | Phone books - Opt-in Opt-out program for white pages. | SUPPORT |
| SB 1100 | Corbett | EPR - Household batteries | SUPPORT |
| SB 1241 | Wolk | Grants for farmers to reduce GHGs (potential compost funding) | SUPPORT |
| SB 1454 | DeSaulnier | Bio-plastics - Require claims of degradability & compostability for plastic products be verifiable by scientific technical standards. | SUPPORT |
