Irony in Sacto as environmentalists deep six key enviro bill

There’s been deep irony in Sacramento this summer, as some normally environmentally oriented state senators deep-sixed what might have been the year’s most important potential new environmental law.

At issue was whether oil companies could be held liable for damage from future wildfires caused at least in part by climate change.

The state Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the measure came just two days after oil giant Chevron was held liable by a Louisiana jury for $744.6 million to restore damage to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands.

The case was the first of many pending against oil companies which have supposedly lied about whether their policies led to land loss along that state’s coast, reaching east from the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Keeping alive the somewhat similar bill to