Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

California attorney general Jerry Brown and officials from 17 other states are calling for the release of internal EPA papers arguing that greenhouse gas emissions end anger public health, reports the Contra Costa Times. In the latest in (EPA administrator) Stephen Johnson vs. the People, the former announced that he would pursue a public comment period instead of releasing the documents.

Led by President Pro Tem Don Perata, Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly are unveiling today a package of eight bills to fight autism, reports the Sac Bee. The bills address, among other things, improving diagnosis and treatment for autism, and improving access to health care for autistic individuals.

The Senate Health Committee has okayed a bill that would require the mandatory labeling of food from cloned animals, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. SB1121, sponsored by state Senator Carol Migden, "would require every merchant along the food supply chain, from livestock producers to grocery store operators, to tell their customers that a product came from a cloned animal or its offspring."