On June 12, 2018, the Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants (SRP) unanimously approved the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) staff report that will list chlorpyrifos as a toxic air contaminant. According to their report, chlorpyrifos may pose a public health risk as a toxic air contaminant based on its assessment of the [...]
Over the past several months, CCM has been closely engaged with the effort to provide growers liability protection against the State Water Resources Control Board for nitrate contamination of groundwater. As we have chronicled in the Market Memo, SB 623 (Monning, D – Carmel) is the vehicle to achieve the desired result. Simply, the bill [...]
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday passed the Agriculture Improvement Act by a vote of 20 - 1. Majority Leader McConnell has committed to consider the bill prior to the 4th of July congressional work period. For the citrus industry and the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance, many of our policy and resource request were accepted [...]
Late last week, the budget conference committee approved $12.5 million in state funds for the California citrus industry’s ACP and HLB prevention program in the 2018-19 budget. The legislature is under a constitutional deadline to pass a budget by this Friday, June 15. Last year, CCM worked to secure $10 million in state funds for [...]
A majority of Californians may have supported a very liberal gubernatorial candidate in the primary election, but the outcome of several senate and assembly races statewide suggest voters are fed up with the political norm. A Senator in the Inland Empire was recalled by a plurality voters in his district and will be replaced by [...]
The November election is looming, and the opportunity for the California citrus industry to engage and influence key political races has never been greater. Over the course of the 2018 primary election cycle, the CCM PAC directly contributed nearly $150,000 to federal and state candidates - Republicans and Democrats, urban and rural. Our investments have [...]
Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris called on the Senate Agriculture Committee to increase funding for specialty crop research in the 2018 Farm Bill. The letter highlighted the importance of this program funding and the need to protect California producers from disease, pests, and other food production challenges. This initiative is currently authorized at $80 [...]
Mark your calendars for this year’s Issues & Eggs on Friday, June 29th at the Visalia Marriott Hotel! CCM’s Issues & Eggs breakfast is one of the annual fundraisers for the Political Action Committee (PAC) and a great chance to hear about some of the major topics going on in the political world that directly [...]
A bill by Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez-Fletcher that would have increased mandatory paid sick days, died in committee last week. Specifically, the bill, AB 2841, would have increased the number of mandatory paid sick days from 3 to 5 and raised the limitation on carry over to the following year to 5 days. Under this [...]
Recommendations from both the Government Relations Committee and the Resource Management Committee to the CCM Board yesterday resulted in a unanimous endorsement of the Water Supply & Quality Act of 2018. “The debacle surrounding Prop 1 implementation has not deterred our organization from the effort to create a more reliable water supply,” states CCM Board [...]
