Even Trash Isn’t Safe from California’s Regulatory Overkill

California regulates everything: If there's a way to insert red tape into daily life, Sacramento will find it.

The Golden State’s overreach extends to the garbage, but these policies ignore the real trash.

California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is mandating sweeping new standards for landfill management, emissions monitoring, and methane capture.

State officials using climate language to pass hidden taxes, steer contracts to political allies, and crowd out private competition.

While Sacramento cracks down on legal landfills, it can’t clean up the illegal ones.

Drive through any homeless encampments in Los Angeles or San Francisco , and you’ll see open-air dumps, biohazards, and fires burning in broad daylight.