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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Clean air fund… exhausted
It seems people are more than willing to ditch their dirty diesel big rigs – when offered a buck or 50,000.
It took no time at all for the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to breeze through $40.5 million in Proposition 1B funding; the district granted incentives of up to $50,000 to folks willing to get [...]
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Mosquito madness
A study up in Corvallis, Ore., disturbed me even more than this close-up image, courtesy Michigan public health officials, of a blood-sucking mosquito drilling into some poor dude’s arm. (Note the blood-engorged abdmonen.)
A researcher sampled 40 catch basins in storm drains across Corvallis and counted more than 33,000 individual mosquitoes.
Corvallis, population 50,000, has 7,500 [...]
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The Sludge Report
Stockton caught the eye of the Bay Area TV news, and it ain’t good….
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The pumps… exempt?
Here’s one solution to Judge Wanger and those pesky Delta smelt: Exempt the giant pumps near Tracy from the Endangered Species Act.
Read on, courtesy McClatchy Newspapers:
WASHINGTON — Republican Congressman George Radanovich wants to suspend one of the nation’s premier environmental laws in order to increase water pumping out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
In a long-shot bill [...]
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Get your hands dirty
Coastal Cleanup Day returns to SJ County on Saturday. While picking up trash for three hours won’t solve our pollution problems, it’s at the very least a feel-good thing for those who volunteer.
Here’s an inspiring quote to get you out there:
“We do have such a beautiful city. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to get through [...]
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CTA: Time to clean house
On the Delta College front, the College Teachers Association has announced its endorsements for November … and they want as many new faces on the board as possible.
Competition for seats on the Delta board has been unprecedented in the wake of an unfavorable Grand Jury report that blamed the current trustees for blowing millions of [...]
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Freedom of what?
Journalists (should) rely heavily on state and federal public records laws. At the federal level, that means the Freedom of Information Act.
But new information from the OpenTheGovernment.org suggest that FOIA has, well, been foiled. In its most recent yearly review, the group concluded that “Government secrecy increased across a wide spectrum of indicators in 2007.”
Among the [...]
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Mountain House reversal?
Two candidates for the Delta College Board of Trustees said during Tuesday’s meeting that they think the college should consider backing out of its controversial Mountain House campus and build in Tracy instead.
Mary Ann Cox, a former Delta administrator, said it’s not too late to turn back, even though earth is finally being turned at the [...]
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Stockton’s in the news again…
… but thankfully, not about mortgages.
Greenwire, a national online compilation of enviro news, ranked as the No. 1 story of the day Stockton’s agreement with state Attorney General Jerry Brown to look at green building standards and reduce the impact of new development.
The lede:
SAN FRANCISCO — One of California’s fastest-growing cities has agreed to reduce sprawl and [...]
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Seven steps to survival