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SALINAS, CA – Yesterday evening, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) held a wildfire insurance workshop with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, State Senator Bill Monning, and other community leaders and stakeholders to discuss the growing of issues affecting the insurance marketplace due to wildfire risk throughout the state.
MARINA — Last month, Rob Nicely of Carmel Building and Design opened up a project he is currently constructing in Carmel Valley to help introduce the concept of Passive House to the region. On Thursday, the Monterey Bay Regional Climate Action Compact's meeting in Marina began to lay the foundation for entities in the area to come together to put the Passive House concept into action.
PACIFIC GROVE, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that he introduced H.R. 5920, the bipartisan Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat (MONARCH) Act. Representatives Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24), Rodney Davis (R-IL-12), and Rob Woodall (R-GA-07) co-led introduction of the House bill. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced a companion bill in the Senate.
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR and Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24), Rodney Davis (R-IL-12), and Rob Woodall (R-GA-7) led the introduction Thursday of the Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat (MONARCH) Act.
This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would provide urgent protections for the struggling western monarch butterfly, a pollinator that is integral to supporting American agriculture and whose population has dropped by 99% since the 1980s.
SANTA CRUZ — Condemning a recent political show of force in the El Salvadoran government, Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, fired off a letter of concern late last week, cosigned by 18 of his Congressional peers.
MONTEREY – Requiring big corporations to take responsibility for their pollution, the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act was introduced by Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico and Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, this week with Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, signed on as one of its co-sponsors.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) led his colleagues in writing a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding their concerns about Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's recent decision to lead armed soldiers into a meeting of the country's Legislative Assembly.
"Such blatant acts of political intimidation must be met with swift and broad rebuke," wrote the members.
California Congressman Jimmy Panetta announced this week that $540,000 will go toward ensuring that people can continue to navigate Santa Cruz Harbor channels as maintenance dredging continues.
This funding will help ensure the safety and prosperity of communities on the central coast of California.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that he cosponsored the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, legislation that would phase out unnecessary single-use plastic products, hold corporations accountable for wasteful products, reduce wasteful packaging, and reform our broken waste and recycling collection system.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) sent another letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles P.