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California enters legal fight over massive Lake County resort, housing project

As Sonoma County fights fire safe roads regulations, the State steps up to protect Lake County from more firestorms.  “The move by Becerra and his staff marks a more aggressive stance on proposed developments in California’s wildland-urban interface in the age of increasingly fast-moving, catastrophic wildfires, suggesting greater scrutiny of such projects and potential intervention …

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The Science that is being ignored by the “biomass” project

Previously logged areas burnt with such ferocity that residents barely had time to escape…. “At this point, anyone––who is still promoting logging as “fuel reduction”, and saying the problem is in our forests, or a lack of firefighting resources or denying the fact that weather and climate change are the dominant drivers of fire behavior …

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The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) is hiring an Environmental Scientist

The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) is hiring an Environmental Scientist The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) is hiring an Environmental Scientist to help advance its strategic priorities related to safeguarding coastal and marine ecosystems and communities in the face of climate change.  The Environmental Scientist will support the work of OPC’s Climate Change program, …

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Trump Targeted California’s Deserts on His Way Out. Biden Has to Avert the Damage.

“….the Trump proposal has less to do with renewable energy — which the administration routinely disfavored over fossil fuel — and more about the former president’s drive to reduce protections for public lands to allow for more exploitation by the oil, gas and mining industries.” Trump Targeted California’s Deserts on His Way Out. Biden Has …

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After months of border wall construction, a look at the damage done

Ecocide Crimes against nature: “..construction crews have been dynamiting, drilling, pumping, excavating and clear-cutting public land. In places like Guadalupe Canyon in far eastern Arizona, simply building roads to bring in construction equipment involved blasting mountainsides and sending the rubble down to clog drainages. Previously wide-open landscapes where wildlife and water could move freely have …

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No Paper towels: Biden releases funding to Puerto Rico storm victims

Justice delayed: “Administration officials, describing the move as a first step toward addressing racial inequality through policies designed to address climate change, said they planned to ease the limits that the Trump administration placed on another $4.9 billion in aid on the morning of Jan. 20, a few hours before the former president left office.” …

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