Monthly Archives: July 2007

Tangled Web

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 28, 2007 | Comments closed
Reporter’s rule No. 1: Never rely on the Net. The state Air Resources Board on Thursday was expected to vote on a new rule requiring the construction industry to upgrade its fleets at an accelerated pace. I wanted to follow along and write a piece for the paper, but the meeting was in Sacramento and I [...]
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Drenched

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 25, 2007 | Comments closed
For those keeping score, Stockton was blessed with 0.02 inches of rain on Tuesday, according to the Natonal Weather Service. That is a record for the date. The previous record rainfall: 0. But don’t get too excited. With only 0.03 inches of rain so far this month, we’d need another day like Tuesday to break the record for the [...]
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Anti-anti-bacterial

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 21, 2007 | Comments closed
A recent study warning that anti-bacterial soap may be bad for the environment triggered a testy response this week from the Soap and Detergent Association. The study by the Environmental Working Group and East Bay Municipal Utility District “grossly overstates” the risk, the association said in a statement Friday. The soap folks are ”disappointed that (EBMUD) would support statements questioning the [...]
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Services for Waldo Holt

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 18, 2007 | Comments closed
Stockton environmentalist Waldo Holt will be remembered at a memorial service at 11 a.m. Saturday at Lincoln Presbyterian Church, 800 Douglas Road in Stockton. Holt, 58, died last week after a bout with cancer. Additionally, two funds have been established in Waldo’s name. Donations may be made to the Waldo Holt Habitat Fund, PO Box 4548, Stockton, CA [...]
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New Delta Threat

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 17, 2007 | Comments closed
Bay City News Service reports that an Oakley man found a 3-foot alligator in his yard Sunday, on Jersey Island Road near Dutch Slough. The gator was the second to be pulled out of the Delta this summer. It was probably an illegal pet that outgrew its home and was dunked in the drink by a [...]
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Huell, back for more?

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 14, 2007 | Comments closed
Well, this is incredible! What a spectacular day! I’ve never seen anything like this before! Roll out the Huell-isms. Huell Howser, California’s king of hyperbole and unbridled enthusiam, is coming back for more. He visited Stockton eariler this year for a recently-aired episode of “Road Trip“; now he’s back on the Delta for a special segment of his “California’s Water” [...]
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A sticking point

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 12, 2007 | Comments closed
We wrote a story earlier this week about federal legislation that would allocate about $86 million to study a reported decline in the honeybee population, specifically Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). The disorder has gotten lots of play as some kind of mysterious and inexplicable plague. But this just in, from researchers at Oregon State University: CORVALLIS, Ore. – [...]
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Smeltdown, continued

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 7, 2007 | Comments closed
In an effort to save more Delta smelt, the state says it’s no longer pumping water out of the Delta at night. It’s unclear if this means less water will be pumped overall, or if the rate of pumping will simply increase during the day. Either way, the strategy is not likely to correct reverse flows in the [...]
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new air chief

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 4, 2007 | Comments closed
The governor appointed environmental lawyer Mary Nichols to the newly-vacated post of chair of the California Air Resources Board on Tuesday. The appointment comes after the firing of board chair Robert Sawyer last week. Schwarzenegger had criticized the air board for approving a delay in San Joaquin Valley’s ozone cleanup, but Sawyer said his termination was [...]
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Delta debate

By Alex Breitler | Published: July 2, 2007 | Comments closed
The U.S. House of Representatives Resources Subcommittee is holding a hearing today in Vallejo on “the Bay-Delta crisis and the implications for California water management.” Stockton-based Restore the Delta is there, and the group’s core message continues to be opposition to any kind of peripheral canal to send freshwater around the Delta rather than through it. In [...]
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