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Another good test of oil’s viscosity is coming up. Assemblymember Laura Friedman was walking the Assembly floor with a checklist Thursday afternoon as she seeks 41 votes for her AB 3155, which would hold oil companies liable for certain respiratory and prenatal ailments within 3,200 feet of a well unless its owner has shown they’re using the best available technologies to prevent air, soil and water pollution. Oil and labor were heavily lobbying against it. More on that tomorrow.
Assemblymember Laura Friedman’s AB 1963, which would ban the use of the herbicide paraquat, got through 44-16. Her AB 2552, which would limit the use of toxic rat poison, also passed today, and her AB 2875, which would boost state protections for wetlands amid a federal rollback from a Supreme Court decision, passed last night.