On this week’s EcoNews Report, Assemblymember Chris Rogers joins the program to discuss this year’s legislative session. Asm. Rogers has emerged as an enviro legislative darling, with bills like year’s AB 263, which established minimum instream flow protections for the Shasta and Scott Rivers. Asm. Rogers joins the show to preview three new and exciting bills: 

AB 1984 would redefine corporate powers under state law to remove corporation’s ability to spend money on elections. (Asm. Rogers recommends this article to learn more.)

AB 1699 would remove operational hurdles to prescribed fire and address liability issues with the goal of expanding “good fire.”

AB 2494 would reimagine state-owned demonstration forests, changing their management goals from “maximum sustained production” of timber to managing for climate, clean water, wildlife, and more.

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