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Schwarzenegger Calls For Market-based Approach To Limit Emissions
Breaking ranks with the Bush administration, California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses a plan to combat warming that is facing opposition from some Republican leaders and businesses.
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Developers Challenge Clean Water Act
A challenge to the Clean Water Act currently before the Supreme Court could endanger the nation's streams.
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Solar Permitting Fees Plummet After Study Shows Wide Cost Discrepancies
The Global Warming & Energy Committee of the Sierra Club chapter in Silicon Valley decide to highlight the excessive permitting charges of some local cities... and results happen.
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Gas Tax Proposed In California To Reach Global Warming Goals
Governor Schwarzenegger's Climate Action Team drafts a report calling for a "public goods charge" (don't call it a gas tax!)with the goal of reducing greenhouse gases, as opposed to reducing congestion
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Sierra Club Promotes Alternatives to Sprawl
The Sierra Club has published a guidebook of 12 healthy and livable communities, built on redeveloped urban sites.
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California Will Miss Environmental Targets
Report concludes that California will miss targets set by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to reduce greenhouse gases.
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Nation's New Smog Capital
Houston loses its national "smog capital" status on a technicality.
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An 'Almost Infinite' Oil Resource For The U.S.?
Who is the largest foreign supplier of crude oil and petroleum products to the U.S.?
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Op-Ed To Thwart Referendum Of Racetrack Conversion to TOD
The City of San Mateo, CA, unanimously approves the conversion of a functioning, 1930's era, 83-acre racetrack into a mixed-use TOD. Opponents petition to put the proposal on the ballot.
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Slow Growth Forces Defeated by Unlikely Coalition
An editorial showing how diverse coalitions can defeat grassroots activists that seek, through political initiatives, to unreasonably restrict infill growth in "built-out" cities.
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Sierra Club, Homebuilders Unite To Beat Ballot Initiatives
While Sierra Club and Greenbelt Alliance battle developers in the East Bay, the scene is the opposite in the South Bay community of Cupertino, home to Apple Computer. Here, they hold hands opposing 3 restrictive land use measures.
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Preserving Open Space Vs. Green Building
A developer proposes to extend a voter-approved Urban Growth Boundary in Livermore, CA, using green building, specifically solar power, as an enticement to gain voter support for their initiative. Environmental organizations galvanize to oppose it.
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Mixed Use Development Attracts Crowds Despite High Prices
How did Santana Row, a controversial San Jose development criticized for being "fake" and "Disneyland North," turn into a real neighborhood?
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Will Housing Trump CEQA?
As housing prices continue to increase, California legislators are considering easing CEQA laws to make housing easier to build.
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Hollywood Star Helps Launch Global Clean Water Campaign
Hollywood star power helped launch a global campaign to draw attention to the plight of hundreds of millions around the world who do not have access to clean water.
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Eco-Radicals Target Sierra Sprawl
ELF begins targeting growth in the quaint Gold Rush town of Auburn, California.
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Why Do Carpool Cheaters Do It?
Carpool cheater confess and explain why they decide to run the risk of a huge fine to drive solo in the carpool lane.
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Orange County Seeks To Grow Differently
Orange County, CA, long a poster child for sprawl, searches for alternatives.
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Sovereignty Or Scam To Duck Zoning?
Joe Rodriguez says that what may appear to be an issue of Native American sovereignty may actually be a scam to skirt around local zoning laws.
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A Radical Vision For San Jose, CA
Anticipating the next economic boom, San Jose, CA, embraces New Urbanism for Coyote Valley plan.
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