Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

You can read the first post, introducing the concept of “Area Median Income,” here. We’ll explore this by looking at TOC, an LA City program designed to encourage new housing creation, and particularly affordable housing, near Metro and bus lines. This turns out to be a complicated question. AMI and rent.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The first blog post (providing an overview of the issue) is here. We collected data on how three counties—Placer, Los Angeles, and San Diego—and two cities—San Diego and Los Angeles—that have large amounts of land in high fire hazard areas approved residential development in 2014-17. The post What is being built in the WUI?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

was built has been slowly. feet in some places — enough to swallow the entire first floor of a two-story house and to at times make Corcoran one of the fastest-sinking areas in the country, according to experts with the United States Geological Survey. The sinking land crushed the casings of four drinking-water wells used by the city.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

I wanted to take this space to share some of my thoughts from the panel—and why I believe this wasn’t exactly the right question to ask. We must turn our attention there first. In addition, more than 170 US cities and 8 states have committed to this and are working hard toward getting there. The tide is turning.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2023

City of Berkeley , addressing whether the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) invalidates a Berkeley municipal ordinance specifying when natural-gas infrastructure can be extended into new buildings. This post takes a preliminary look at the decision and unpacks a few of the questions left behind by the panel’s opinion.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the group, Cudahy Alliance for Justice, challenged the City of Cudahy’s approval of an elementary and middle school on a hazardous waste site, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Strobel ruled that the approval was unlawful under CEQA. Of the five schools in Cudahy, two were built on or immediately adjacent to hazardous waste sites.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

Check out the first post , introducing some of the big questions around the IIJA and IRA, the second post , on transmission infrastructure, and RSVP for the Symposium here ! Let’s take a look at some of the key questions. appeared first on Legal Planet. Private or Public Transportation? Who Decides?

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2021

Reuters reports that the call came after state media and the environmental ministry made unannounced visits to cities and prefectures in the watershed and secretly shot footage. In the United States, in Tennessee, a controversial oil pipeline that would run through Black communities in the Memphis area will not be built.

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MAY 16, 2023

“The municipal sector agrees with the province that more housing needs to be built, but it’s a question of the approach. Lawrence Cities Initiative. Lawrence Cities Initiative’s next meeting in June — the initiative consists of “more than 200 U.S. The bill, which streamlines construction of 1.5

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Experts say the incident has called into question the plant’s ability to function as the climate continues to warm. The inundation caused a bridge in the city of Bartin to collapse, injuring 13 people, and left 12 villages without power. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. 12 VILLAGES. 25 PERCENT. 25 PERCENT.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is built on swampland, leaving it perilously close to the level of the Lake. In earlier days, the City’s dealt with the problem by jacking buildings up 8 feet and then raising the street level to fit. (At inches soaked the city. The post My Kind of Town appeared first on Legal Planet. inches of rain fell.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 8, 2023

City of Newport Beach (2023) Cal.App.5th. Case Background The Olen case concerns the addition of a 312-unit residential development to the Koll Center Business Park, an existing mixed use commercial development in the City of Newport Beach. The first stage in the Court’s discussion was to frame the standard of review.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Here where I live in the Tennessee Valley, customers experienced the first rolling blackouts in the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) last year. billion in total operating revenue in fiscal year 2022, the first time ever that its revenue exceeded the $12 billion mark. The TVA reported $12.5

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CEQA Developments

MAY 22, 2023

City of San Jose (SJ Cityview, LLC, Real Party in Interest) (2023) Cal.App.5th. The Project and Trial Court Litigation The Project site is located within City View Plaza, originally Park Center Plaza, which was one of the City’s first redevelopment sites built between the late 1960s and mid-1980s.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

More Than 100 Volunteers Clean Up 30 Miles Of River Banks In Huntingdon, Blair Counties Yuengling Brewery, Keep PA Beautiful Celebrate Partnership With Cleanup In Schuylkill County PA Chapter American Planning Assn. PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues. Click Here for a Calendar of Upcoming Events.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

A city in northern Texas expects to run out of water for its residents as drought conditions persist. Lead pipes are widespread in homes built before 1970. Even as critics question the suitability of the water transfers in a new climate era, governments are prepared to spend billions on water-supply pipelines. 140 PEOPLE.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For the first 130 years of the American nation’s history, the Takings Clause was widely understood to apply only to government’s physical seizure of private property. ” But, Holmes continued, the question is one of degree: “if regulation goes too far, it will be recognized as a taking.” Download as PDF.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Whether it’s wheeled robots whizzing around city-sized warehouses, or if it’s just a smart assistant in your phone, robotics and AI has quickly become integral technologies in our lives. We might often think of a robot as something which is built and exists until it either breaks or is decommissioned. Robot Evolution: Ethical Concerns.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

Vincent’s larger cities–the more technologically developed southern communities of Georgetown, Kingston, and Biabou–are quite different from those on the opposite side of the dry meander. Only an orange and pink dance hall, one dilapidated boat house, and a select few homes still stood, all built fortuitously on higher ground.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

3) affirmed a judgment denying a writ petition challenging the City of Tustin’s finding that a Costco gas station/ancillary facilities project in an existing shopping center was categorically exempt from CEQA. City of Tustin (Costco Wholesale Corporation, Real Party in Interest) (2021) Cal.App.5th. Protect Tustin Ranch v.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 3, 2022

In a lengthy, but mostly unpublished, opinion filed December 16, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment rejecting a petitioner group’s CEQA, Planning and Zoning Law, and procedural due process/fair hearing challenges to the City of San Diego’s approval of a four-lane road connecting existing developments.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The Peterses took the first path. The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. Built in 1993, the facility uses reverse osmosis to remove nitrate. First in Line. Get involved and do something or just disappear.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

The Gaithersburg research reactor was built on farmland in 1967 by what was then known as the US National Bureau of Standards , which was renamed NIST in 1988. Questions were allowed to be submitted by e-mail or via the meeting platform’s Q&A function, and voices and video were muted (questions could be asked anonymously).

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 9, 2021

In June 2021, South Bruce Peninsula City council, in a private, ‘in camera’ session, approved the zoning application for the development of a piece of agricultural land on the north shore of Colpoys Bay into an ‘aquafarming’ facility. Allowing it to be built would set a very dangerous precedent for South Bruce and other rural municipalities.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 2, 2023

She lived for several months in Yakutsk, the world’s only city built on permafrost. On that point, the first part of the book focuses on the ice and the earth, looking at permafrost melt and its consequences. These are profound questions, raised by a thoughtful and unusual book set in the Russian Arctic.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

That project is hung up in the permitting process and faces its own questions about its billion-plus dollar cost, justification, and water availability from a drying Colorado River basin. The best leadership on water conservation in the state, he says, comes from cities. All in all, he questions the wisdom of the project.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Brett Walton 2022-08-16 20:03:20 2022-12-08 22:12:31 Colorado River States Face Deeper Water Cuts – With More on the Way The Bureau of Reclamation’s $4 Billion Drought Question 0 Comments / August 11, 2022 The Inflation Reduction Act provides the agency with more than twice its annual budget for drought response. Brett Walton. Brett Walton.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2021

García grew up in Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá, more than 2500 m above sea level in the Andes. I built a little solar system on the wall of the bedroom I shared with my brothers when I was about eight years old with the light bulb as the Sun,” she recalls. That was the first indication to me that science was a male-dominated field.”

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Acoel

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

There is no question the policy considerations underlying Environmental Justice (EJ) are valid. Apparently because of the proposed plant site’s proximity to the City of Flint, Michigan and to communities characterized in EPA’s EJSCREEN with a relatively high “EJ Index”. Posted on November 29, 2021 by Steven Kohl.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Also, most, if not, all of my life I was living in coastal cities and my family is from the islands, so that played a role in me being curious about marine environments,” Aliyah reflects. Aliyah was the first African American student to be accepted and receive a degree from the University of North Carolina’s marine science graduate program.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Wealthy business elites of the nineteenth century built an exclusive system by which only those who can afford to escape over-industrialized and deteriorating cities were able to enjoy nature’s beauty. I am so proud of the hard work of our staff over the last year to dive deep into the questions: Why us?

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 8, 2022

We’ve built our infrastructure in a way that makes us car dependent and we’ve let the car industry trap us in large cars that make us fill up often. Over the long term we need to change how we get around our cities and move towards more public and active transportation. cents per litre. But this is only a temporary solution.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here are four key climate questions where physicists are perfectly placed to help. Two residents were killed and the rest were evacuated as were those in surrounding First Nation communities. City dwellers are at most risk due to heat being reflected and absorbed from buildings, roads and other urban structures.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From now until December 15th, the City of Toronto is conducting public consultation on Environmental Defence’s proposed change to how housing can be built in existing neighborhoods. Fill out the city survey here. QUESTION 3 Please rate the seven principles in order of importance to you from 1 to 7.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2022

While attending Albion College in Michigan, he helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970 and appeared on a CBS-TV prime-time special hosted by Walter Cronkite that was called Earth Day: A Question of Survival. Albion called itself “Manufacturing City U.S.A.,” A truly memorable event in my life experience.”

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Multiple Agency Proceedings and Litigations Related to the Water Supply Project The Water Supply Project was opposed by MCWD and the City of Marina. City of Berkeley (2015) 60 Cal.4th Citing Berkeley Hillside Preservation v. 4th 1086, 1119-1120.)

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The rise and fall of petrol stations China’s first commercial filling station was built in Shanghai in 1924. The number in the US began slowly coming down about 20 years ago; in Japan, it peaked at around 60,000 in 1994, and has steadily declined since – with 27,000 recorded in the first half of this year.

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