Staff

Daniel Jacobson Legislative Director (916) 446-8062 ext. 105

Expertise

water pollution, genetic engineering, food safety, toxic pollution transportation, offshore oil drilling, auto pollution/diesel, polluter subsidies/green taxes, Superfund/brownfields, energy policy, renewable energy, sprawl/open space, wilderness/forests, public lands, endangered species, ocean protection/sustainable fishing, urban planning

Background

Mr. Jacobson coordinates policy development, research, and legislative advocacy for Environment California. Based in Sacramento, he leads the organization’s policy agenda and advocates before the state legislature and Congress.

Mr. Jacobson led efforts to pass the California Clean Energy Act, the strongest renewable energy law in the country, which requires the state's investor-owned utilities to generate at least 20 percent of their electricity from clean sources such as wind or solar by the year 2010.

By working to ban PBDE’s in 2003 and phthalates in 2006 Mr. Jacobson lead the strategy to get the state Legislature and the Governor’s office to adopt the Green Chemistry Initiative.

This year Mr. Jacobson is working in both Washington DC and Sacramento to ensure that the economic recovery act funds are used as efficiently as possible.

He has authored several reports, including Three Strikes and You Profit: A CALPIRG Study of Clean Water Enforcement in California, and testified before the state Legislature on preservation and clean air issues.

He has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, and has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Sacramento Bee. Mr. Jacobson serves on the board of the Clean Power Campaign.