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Sanitation plant’s continuing violations costly to community

Written on 19 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

The South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District was slapped with another notice of violation on Tuesday for continuing environmental failures at the plant which are likely to result in more fines. Investigators from the Environmental Protection Agency and the... (Continue reading)

SLO proposed bag ban speeding up

Written on 7 Sep, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 56 comments

In a presentation before the San Luis Obispo City Council Tuesday night, Integrated Waste Management Association manager Bill Worell laid out a plan in which a county ban on single use plastic and papers bags would go into effect September... (Continue reading)

Salinas will consider ban on polystyrene takeout boxes

Written on 16 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

The Salinas City Council will consider today whether to ban polystyrene “takeout” boxes, which tend to break up over time and leach out toxic chemicals, and are considered a major source of marine pollution and litter, environmentalists say. [The Salinas... (Continue reading)

Aviation fuel polluting air and water with lead?

Written on 11 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 8 comments

The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) is taking legal action against several major oil companies and suppliers for allegedly causing the pollution of drinking water sources and air around 25 airports throughout California, including San Pedro Creek in Goleta and... (Continue reading)

Why did California approve a toxic pesticide?

Written on 24 Feb, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 3 comments

This week, the state Assembly began hearings on why California regulators approved a cancer-causing pesticide for use in strawberry fields and other crops last December. [San Francisco Chronicle] The hearings come as environmentalists and farm workers have filed lawsuits against... (Continue reading)

Oceano Dunes air quality committees disbanded

Written on 21 Feb, 2011 in Uncovered SLO | 33 comments

Under pressure to comply with open meeting law requirements, county and state officials have agreed to dissolve their agreement to examine and develop a plan to clean up air pollution in the Oceano Dunes, according to a press release from... (Continue reading)

Target pays $22.5 million for dumping hazardous waste

Written on 4 Feb, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

As the new Target department store continues to spring up on Los Osos Valley Road, comes word that the parent company has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle various claims throughout California alleging the retail giant dumped hazardous waste.... (Continue reading)

Oceano sewage spill much larger than originally reported

Written on 29 Jan, 2011 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 33 comments

Documents attached to emails obtained by CalCoastNews indicate that a sewage spill last December dumped 3 million gallons of raw sewage into Oceano neighborhoods, beaches and the Pacific Ocean, more than 30 times what was originally reported. [PDF] On December 19,... (Continue reading)

Local agencies violate open meeting law

Written on 23 Jan, 2011 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 92 comments

Requests to allow public access to meetings of a local committee formed to examine the air quality at the Oceano dunes were primarily ignored until one of the states leading authorities on open meeting laws warned the committee that they... (Continue reading)

Mercury might cause homosexual behavior in birds

Written on 2 Dec, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 17 comments

Mercury poison is being blamed for causing some male birds to display homosexual behavior. [NatureNews] American white ibises exposed to mercury are more likely to engage in same-sex pairings than unexposed American white ibises. Peter Frederick, an ecologist at the... (Continue reading)