Mackenzie Elmer
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Existential Threat to CEQA or Just Building Stuff We Need Faster? (opens the original)
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A coalition of businesses want to build more quickly in California. The way they hope to do it is by putting a big, legal stopwatch on California’s Environmental Quality Act or CEQA. The sweeping environmental movement of the 1960s gave birth to CEQA. The intent: limit environmental harm of development by placing the responsibility on government to ensure a project doesn’t significantly damage the California environment. While well intentioned, CEQA has also been used to block or stall projects
What’s Desmond’s Deal on TJ River? (opens the original)
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Republican Supervisor Jim Desmond – who’s running for a critical U.S. House seat that could be key to flipping Congress – has been a little hard to follow when it comes to the sewage-plagued, cross-border Tijuana River. Earlier this month he supported his Democratic colleagues, Supervisors Paloma Aguirre and Terra Lawson-Remer, in spending $1.8 million of county reserve money to study the feasibility of capturing and cleaning the entire river, as it flows out Mexico. This plan would also make th
Two Supes Think County Should Own Tijuana River Pollution Crisis (opens the original)
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Around 1 a.m. this morning, about 13 million gallons of water, sewage and who knows what else flowed down the Tijuana River, across the border and into the United States. At around 5 a.m., the level of sewer gas (called hydrogen sulfide) wafting off the river measured twice what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers safe to breathe. Kicker is, the river shouldn’t be flowing at all right now. It’s a seasonal river, which means it should be dry in the summertime, because it’s not rain
Arizona Wants to Suck Water Supplies From Mexico’s Sea of Cortez (opens the original)
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Desalination companies are pitching new ways to pump water from the Sea of Cortez off Baja California in order to supply Arizona, which is facing massive cuts to its main water source, the Colorado River. EPCOR Water Innovation Partners, a Canadian company paired with Spanish construction company, Sacyr, and Acciona, a Spanish company, have pitched Arizona’s Water Infrastructure Financing Authority two different projects that do the same thing: pull salt out of ocean water to make fresh water. B
Colonist Honeybees Are Kind of a Problem. Vote Native. (opens the original)
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I was today years old when I learned honeybees are colonial invaders, brought over from Europe in the 1600s to use their wax for candles. And like much about the colonial invasion of North America, honeybees — despite their popularity — create a lot of problems. The state has over 1,600 species of native bees that aren’t the honey-making kind. That’s 40 percent of all the species in the country. San Diego county alone boasts 700 species. But honeybees might be crowding them out. Because honeybee
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