The Mixer
A Change to Regulating California?
This week comes a push to do something about those state agencies that are responsible for regulating and overseeing companies, whose environmental records have been less than stellar… even, perhaps, criminal.
State regulators have been under intense scrutiny in recent history, overseeing utilities that are shutting down or shoring up nuclear power plants; dealing with an environmental disaster that’s displaced thousands of people; even trying to coordinate the cleanup of a now-shuttered battery plant that poisoned the soil – and people – of homes nearby. So this week comes a push to do something about those agencies that are responsible for regulating and overseeing companies, whose environmental records have been less than stellar -- even, perhaps, criminal.