Protecting our environmental resources and promoting social justice
Local author Jonah Raskin talks about what some observers have dubbed “The Juggernaut” and its effect on residents, the water supply, and the struggle to preserve rural character. By Jonah Raskin Posted on April 5, 2018 by Sonoma Valley Sun By Jonah Raskin | for The Sonoma Sun Lila Weinberger, the cofounder and co-owner of …
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“Tourism devours what it loves” Investors and big companies have transformed the area with crass commercialism that has overridden the quality of life and harmed the environment. by Bill Swindell, The Press Democrat April 1, 2018 James Conaway is angry. Author and journalist, Conaway has been the foremost chronicler of Napa Valley for more than …
A prominent environmental law firm has told Napa County: You have a pattern and practice of failing to comply with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Correct this, or we will make sure you do! In a letter dated August 11, 2017, the environmental law firm Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, representing The Alliance for Responsible Governance, a …
The Wine industry lobbied our electeds to vote against farmworker equal overtime pay. Hall has held fundraisers for assemblyman Bill Dodd who voted against equal overtime pay, twice. The costs of labor and production continue to be externalized onto farmworkers and onto the environment, onto future generations and the community at large. “This article is …