July 2018

Alert: Bay Delta Plan and the SFPUC’s flawed impact analysis and misinformation campaign

Please check out our new 8-minute slideshow video about the Bay Delta Plan and the SFPUC’s flawed impact analysis and misinformation campaign — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL_INODOxsI&feature=youtu.be. The SFPUC has refused to discuss the Plan in public, but has met behind closed doors to consider possible litigation.  We lobbied hard to get them to put the item on today’s …

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Interior watchdog opens probe of land deal linking Zinke, Halliburton chairman

“Secretary Zinke doesn’t seem to take his responsibility to the public seriously,” Grijalva told POLITICO in a statement. “He’s turned it into the Ryan Zinke show, which is more about waving his own flag above the building and doing personal business deals with his friends instead of protecting public lands and improving our environmental quality. …

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GSA Basin Boundary Modifications Submission Period Extended to September

In Sonoma County, 2 new basins have been potentially been added and the medium basins have been designated high priority basins. This is still a work in progress. Once finalized the GSA basin panels will have the authority of imminent domain, monitoring and charging fees to all well users, be able to pass capital improvements and …

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Teenagers’ Climate Lawsuit Against Trump Can Proceed, Supreme Court Rules

“Kids understand the threats climate change will have on our future,” then-13-year-old Zoe Foster, one of the plaintiffs, told Slate at the time. “I’m not going to sit by and watch my government do nothing. We don’t have time to waste. I’m pushing my government to take real action on climate, and I won’t stop …

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Wine Industry continues expansion with no cumulative impacts reports on the area or event study promised by Supes 3 years ago..

Three years ago we were promised an event study in heavily impacted areas by winery events. Not a peep from the supervisors. Is this the new trend, only the rich wine buyers are wanted in this county? All this on a 1.15 acre parcel. This is not ag promotion, this is commercial/industrial wine “shopping complex” for the …

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Email dump confirms shrinking nat’l monuments was designed to favor logging, fossil-fuel interests

“Zinke was supposed to be supervising an objective study of 27 national monuments. He and his minions were actually burying the benefits of keeping the national monuments the size they had been designated and emphasizing how shrinking the monuments would be good for the extractive industries …..Zinke’s sham review was rigged from the beginning to open up more public lands …

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