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CEQA, the public tool to good health and environment Governor Newsom has announced a package of 11 budget-trailer bills that would make significant changes to CEQA. This use of trailer bills to weaken CEQA is an abuse of the budget process and is intentionally designed to avoid an open and transparent discussion about some …
CEQA Needs You: Developers Have Long Wanted to Eliminate Read More »
DAM REMOVAL UPDATE Take Action to Support Public River Access and More! Greetings Friends, Wow, April was a busy month. We enjoyed celebrating Earth Week with our Pints for Nonprofits event at Redwood Curtain Brewing Company, attending Eureka Natural Foods’ Earth Day Celebration, presenting at Salmonid Restoration Federation’s conference in Fortuna, displaying a timeline of our advocacy …
POSTPONED DUE TO PUBLIC RESPONSE Public Hearing – May 11 – New gas station proposal at 43 Middle Rincon Road, Santa Rosa CONGAS ALERT: Pasted below, in THIS LINK, and attached is a Public Notice about a Public Hearing that will take place on Thursday, May 11 @ 4:30pm on the gas station proposal at 43 Middle Rincon …
CONGAS ALERT: Public Hearing POSTPONED – May 11 – New gas station proposal Read More »
Forest Unlimited: Webinar on Biomass Logging, Bad for Communities, Climate & Forests on April 19 at 2 pm Forest Unlimited Supporters, This webinar on April 19 at 2 pm is an opportunity to find out about biomass logging and biomass energy, an industry being formed to accept the huge amount of vegetation being removed or …
Sonoma County environmental news from Sonoma OCCUPY 2 Sonoma County gas stations among 14 to pay $1.7 million in settlement for environmental violations https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/2-sonoma-county-gas-stations-among-14-to-pay-1-7-million-in-settlement-for/ “The complaint lists 107 alleged violations where the defendants failed to continuously monitor or test underground storage tanks and did not install and maintain leak monitoring and spill containment systems.” …
Environmental News from our friends at Occupy Sonoma Read More »
Well Ordinance that needed to be updated was foiled once again by the “usual suspects” Gore, Hopkins and Rabbitt in favor of status quo and gift for wine industry to keep on pumping our public resources for their profit. (Remember before 1970 no grapes were watered of course lower yields and less $ for the …
3-2 Vote Again…usual Supervisors vote for status quo Read More »