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California off track for 80 percent carbon cut

Written on 6 Nov, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

California will fall short of its 2050 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal if the state does not adopt aggressive measures to fight climate changer, a U.S. Department of Energy report says. [LA Times] The state is on pace to comply... (Continue reading)

Brown signs West Coast pact on climate change

Written on 29 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 17 comments

Governor Jerry Brown joined the governors of Oregon and Washington and the premier of British Columbia Monday to sign a West Coast pact on fighting climate change. [Mercury News] The Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy commits the... (Continue reading)

SLO APCD board approves annual fees on state parks

Written on 6 Sep, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 26 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) board approved nearly $50,000 of annual fees Thursday to be levied upon the California Department of Parks and Recreation as part of a controversial effort to reduce dust blowing from... (Continue reading)

Missing APCD board members spotted

Written on 25 Jul, 2013 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 92 comments

Two San Luis Obispo County supervisors who claimed that they were unable to attend an Air Pollution Control District Board meeting Wednesday morning were spotted at a gathering that afternoon in Pismo Beach. Supervisors Bruce Gibson and Adam Hill, who... (Continue reading)

Gibson and Hill ploy leads to cancellation of APCD meeting

Written on 24 Jul, 2013 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 19 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District cancelled its board meeting scheduled for Wednesday following a late and likely politically strategic decision by Supervisors Bruce Gibson and Adam Hill not to attend. Gibson and Hill likely would have... (Continue reading)

Grover Beach council considering replacing Peterson on APCD board

Written on 19 Jul, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 33 comments

The Grover Beach City Council is considering booting its mayor from the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District Board. Mayor Debbie Peterson, who has represented Grover Beach on the board since January, attempted Monday to gain the support... (Continue reading)

Atascadero group appeals Walmart ruling

Written on 17 Jul, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 30 comments

An attorney for Save Atascadero, a group opposed to the Walmart project, filed an appeal on July 12 that challenges a judge’s ruling approving the project. In June 2012, the Atascadero City Council approved the construction of a Walmart superstore... (Continue reading)

Grover Beach Council spurns mayor’s campaign against APCD dust rule

Written on 16 Jul, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 32 comments

Grover Beach Mayor Debbie Peterson, who is campaigning to repeal the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District dust rule, petitioned her fellow council members Monday to join her in opposition to the regulation. Peterson did not win over... (Continue reading)

Huffington Post: Jerry Reiss for Nobel Prize

Written on 30 May, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

In a Huffington Post story about World No Tobacco Day, May 31, the author suggests former San Luis Obispo City Councilman Jerry Reiss for the next Nobel Peace Prize: In 1990, Reiss was the councilman who first proposed the ban... (Continue reading)

Judge rules against two suits over APCD dust rule

Written on 24 Apr, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 30 comments

A San Luis Obispo Superior Court judge has ruled against two legal challenges to the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District’s Oceano Dunes dust rule. Judge Charles Crandall rejected the requests made by Friends of Oceano Dunes, an... (Continue reading)