Press Releases

SACRAMENTO – Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) released the following statement today applauding the Governor’s signing of SB 1143 to expand PaintCare - California’s flagship extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for paint.

 




MALIBU – Senator Ben Allen (D-Malibu) celebrated the Governor’s signing of SB 1297 today to bring overdue speeding enforcement tools to the City of Malibu’s stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH).

 




SAN FRANCISCO – Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), chair of the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, released the following statement today in response to the Attorney General holding our biggest polluters accountable for their deception.

 




Vernon, California – Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), chair of the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, released the following statement after the U.S. EPA proposed to add Exide Technologies’ former site in Vernon to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL).

 




SANTA MONICA – Big Blue Bus riders and operators will experience increased safety with the passage of SB 1417 (Allen), a new law signed by Governor Newsom that allows the City of Santa Monica’s Department of Transportation to deny access to Big Blue Bus services for individuals routinely cited for policy infractions, and/or arrested or convicted for a misdemeanor or felony committed on buses or transit facilities. 

 




SACRAMENTO – The California Legislature passed SB 615 (Allen) today with strong bipartisan support in order to further prop up California as a global leader in the electric vehicle (EV) battery marketplace.

 




SACRAMENTO SB 1143 (Allen) received final, bipartisan approval from the California Legislature today to expand California’s safe management of hazardous paint products through the extended producer responsibility (EPR) program, PaintCare.

 




SACRAMENTO – Senator Ben Allen (D-Malibu) applauded the Legislature’s passage of SB 1297 today to provide stronger speeding enforcement and safer roads along the Pacific Coast Highway’s (PCH) stretch through the City of Malibu.