Items Tagged with 'Jared Blumenfeld'

The California Retailers Association made staff promotions for Sarah Pollo Moo and Ryan Allain. Alexa Fox, who worked for Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., for the past nearly 10 years, joined Monument Advocacy as vice president on the food and agriculture team. Kristin Heidelbach is now vice president of government and public affairs at cannabis retail company, Embarc. Jenica Maldonado, a labor and employment attorney in California, rejoined Hanson Bridgett LLP as a partner in the employer services section. Longtime Sierra Club leader Michael Brune launched a climate change-focused investment and philanthropy fund called Clean Break. Audra Weeks, who was deputy chief of staff for policy at the Agriculture Department, departed USDA.

Republican Sen. Brian Dahle of Lassen County ran through a list of farm policy grievances for the Newsom administration during a budget subcommittee hearing this week.

CalEPA Secretary Jared Blumenfeld apologized for not having “a longer conversation” with farmers before proposing to overhaul the pesticide mill assessment.