July 2017

Owner of Healdsburg’s Wilson Winery hit with $56,000 in pollution fines

Charlie Wagner, Paul Hobbs and now Ken Wilson…….again! The list is piling up of bad winery owners who will do whatever they want and take their chances of being caught. Fines are just a business right-off in their quest for more and more and more. Quick response to his latest venture may have spared the county a …

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CEQA Requires Assessment of GHG Impacts from Tourism

Judge Rules Climate Action 2020 Plan Violates CEQA

Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Nancy Case Shaffer in Santa Rosa has ruled in favor of local Sonoma Valley attorney Jerry Bernhaut’s lawsuit challenging Sonoma County’s Climate Action 2020 Plan. A lawyer with River Watch, a Sonoma County firm active in filing environmental challenges, Bernhaut’s suit argued that the county’s plan violated various provisions of …

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Input period for federal review extended to August 14th! Zinke’s monuments ‘review’ is land seizure in disguise. Still time to comment on national monument review, link below.

The coast is part of this attack on public resources we own. The monument review could open our coastal region to the Mendocino border open for oil drilling and more. There is time left to comment on the Trump administration’s attempt to take precious national monuments out of protection which will allow mining, logging, water mining, and …

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“Poison Papers” Snapshot: Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion with Chemical Industry

  2.2 million pounds of chemicals used in Sonoma County yearly…….childhood cancer rates tied for 3rd in state, Napa first. It’s time for plan B. No more excuses to poison for profit. 100,000 Pages of Chemical Industry Secrets Gathered Dust in an Oregon Barn for Decades — Until Now https://theintercept.com/2017/07/26/chemical-industry-herbicide-poison-papers/   For decades, some of …

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Slow Food needs some volunteers for their apple press

If you have had the opportunity to work the presses you know what a great experience this is. You can volunteer a few hours or bring your apples to be pressed for free/donation or just have a great community experience! Highly recommended and we keep apples being part of agricultural heritage, slow down the wine train. …

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Community Separators Put to the test

It’s the old “bait and switch” that the binge tourism-big wine regularly practice, ask for more than they want and “settle” for their original intention. 81% of voters wanted green spaces in Community Separators initiative, we need less tourism not more. The impacts have reached critical mass. Community Separators Put to Test By Teri Shore, Sonoma …

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