POLITICO California Climate Newsletter · September 11, 2023
ANOTHER VOICE — An advocate for corporate engagement on climate policy is speaking up about his terminal diagnosis of ALS in hopes it will inspire more companies to speak up on SB 253 — and climate policies in general.
Bill Weihl, a former green guru at Google and Facebook who left to found the nonprofit ClimateVoice, is going public today with his diagnosis that he received in May. He’s also launched a campaign to get pro-climate companies to quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
“Our planet and society also have a life-altering disease,” he said in a text-based interview. “The difference between that and mine is that the climate crisis is self-inflicted. We have agency — we can choose the future path.”
Lawmakers took up SB 253 Thursday night 15 minutes before publication of this newsletter.