Environment

A proposal is quietly advancing for a new upscale resort inside Yosemite Valley's park gates.

July 28, 2000 - The Sacramento Bee

Gaviota Coast from Goleta to Guadalupe in Santa Barbara County is one of the last uspoiled streteches of coast in Southern California.

July 28, 2000 - Santa Barbara News-Press

A program that would pump treated sewage water into LosAngeles homes after an extensive purification process has fueledcontroversy among city officials and residents.

July 28, 2000 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

The Alliance For Water Quality will oppose efforts by the regional water-quality boards to impose stricter water-pollution limits.

July 27, 2000 - Wall St. Journal

The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition forClean Air threatened to sue state agencies on Thursday for failing tomeet California's Smog Check II program emission-reduction goals due tolax regulations and poor enforcement.

July 27, 2000 - The Sacramento Bee

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) islooking to impose strict diesel controls by 2004, two years earlier thana national deadline.

July 26, 2000 - The Los Angeles Times

John H. Minan, faculty of the University of San Diego Schoolof Law and member of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board,discusses the future of a $3.47 million sewage spill fine against thecity of San Diego in this opinion editorial.

July 26, 2000 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Environmental writer Marc Reisner's book "Cadillac Desert" detailed the misuse of water in the West.

July 25, 2000 - The Washington Post

In an editorial, SACOG's executive director outlines the steps SACOG is taking to ensure that the Sacramento area meets state and federal clean air requirements.

July 23, 2000 - The Sacramento Bee

Plan to construct 63 hillside homes is rejected to protect thehabitat of the endangered Peninsular Bighorn Sheep in California's Riverside County.

July 21, 2000 - Press-Enterprise

Major donations from celebrity entertainers help environmentalists meet court deadline to post a $250,000 bond to temporarily halt logging near the Headwaters preserve in the North Coast regionof California.

July 20, 2000 - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Increased housing pressure from hi-tech millionaires prompts conservation group to purchase oceanfront land to prevent development of trophy homes along California's San Mateo County coastline.

July 20, 2000 - San Jose Mercury News

Amid concern about the environmental impacts of a new UC Merced campus, 60,000 acrese around the campus will be purchased as a wetlands preserve.

July 20, 2000 - The Fresno Bee

A new report endorses the use of fines to punish gas stations and oil companies who have polluted public drinking water sources.

July 19, 2000 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek

The New River will be the subject of a clean-up effort that should deliver cleaner water to the Salton Sea in four years or less.

July 19, 2000 - Desert Sun Palm Springs

Groundbreaking partnership could be a model for other water districts, even though plan raises the specter of Owen's Valley takeover in the movie "Chinatown."

July 19, 2000 - Bakersfield Californian

The California Coastal Conservancy is pursuing a proposal to restore a twelve mile stretch of the Santa Clara River to its natural state.

July 19, 2000 - The Los Angeles Times

A 4,413-acre mountain ranch in California's Mount Hamilton range will be acquired by the Nature Conservancy and will become park of a State Park.

July 18, 2000 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose have the most known leaking tank sites, with more than 1,000 each.

July 18, 2000 - The Stockton Record

Additional power for northern California will be delivered by a floating power plant from Texas.

July 18, 2000 - The San Francisco Chronicle