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Dan Bacher: CLCV shamelessly greenwashes Feinstein’s environmental record

Posted by: Maven on February 23, 2010 at 7:37 am

From Dan Bacher at IndyBay.org, this commentary:

“The California League of Conservation Voters today greenwashed the environmental record of Dianne Feinstein by praising her for earning a 100 percent score in their 2009 National Environmental Scorecard, even though Feinstein has collaborated with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in campaigning for the construction of a peripheral canal and new dams that would seal the doom of California’s imperiled Central Valley salmon and Delta fish populations.

Right now Feinstein is sponsoring an amendment in the Senate, at the behest of Westlands Water District, to strip protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for Sacramento River Chinook salmon, Delta smelt, Central Valley steelhead and the southern resident population of killer whales. She has persistently lobbied to increase water exports to subsidized agribusiness interests that irrigate toxic soil on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.

After receiving a letter from agribusiness giant Stewart Resnick of Paramount Farms, Feinstein also pressured the Obama administration to convene an “independent” panel of the National Academy of Sciences to review the biological opinions for Delta smelt and Central Valley salmon in January.

Yet CLCV CEO Warner Chabot, an adamant supporter of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fast-track Marine Life Protection (MLPA) Initiative, gushes over what a great “environmental leader” that Feinstein is. … “

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February 23, 2010 · Filed Under General Water Issues

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