“AI must remain a tool controlled by humans, not the other way around,” California State Sen. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, said in a release announcing the legislation.
“Nobody’s told me they’re excited about it,” says state Sen. Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton), an East San Francisco Bay lawmaker who is co-chairman of the Legislative Delta Caucus.
The broad bipartisan coalition against the tunnel fast-tracking plan now includes more than 100 legislators; cities, counties, and public agencies; good government groups; environmental and tribal organizations; and nonprofits and local businesses.
The California state Senate on Monday greenlighted Sen. Jerry McNerney, SB 24, Protecting Ratepayers from Utilities’ Abuses.
“Dublin is not a NIMBY community,” State Sen. Jerry McNerney said during the ceremony. Instead, city leaders collaborate with stakeholders to complete projects like this, he added.
Last week, the California Senate unanimously approved Senator Jerry McNerney’s SB 279, which is designed to benefit farmers and winegrape growers by allowing them to compost large amounts of green waste onsite — now that California has banned nearly all agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley.
At a May 20 news conference for the Leaders of the Legislative Delta Caucus, State Sen. Jerry McNerney said, “The governor is saying it’s going to be $20 billion, but we know it’s going to be a lot more than that; this cost is unaffordable.”
“The project would have to be paid for by ratepayers who are already overburdened with soaring utility costs and aren’t even aware of how the cost of this is going to impact them in their pocketbooks,” said state Sen. Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton).
State Sen. Jerry McNerney is laying down the gauntlet against Newsom’s budget proposal to fast-track the controversial Delta tunnel.
