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Candidates for California governor ought to get serious about these pressing issues
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (285+ words) Eric Swalwell's abrupt departure from the campaign for governor due to revelations about sexual transgressions leaves nine men and women remaining as serious contenders for spots on the November ballot. In no particular order: The Public Policy Institute of California…...
California safeguards pumas as federal rules fail to protect their habitat
2+ week, 1+ day ago (581+ words) Tiffany Yap is the urban wildlands science director at the Center for Biological Diversity and wrote "Tales of the Urban Wild: A Puma's Journey." We don't know the exact reason a male mountain lion known as 157 M wandered into the…...
Guest Opinion: Proposed new wells will spread PFAS plume
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (561+ words) Zone 7 Water Agency plans to drill new wells in southwest Pleasanton near the leading edge of an enormous plume of PFAS, a. k. a. "forever chemicals, underlying the Tri-Valley. And they're pushing Pleasanton to join them." New groundwater modeling commissioned by Zone 7 appears…...
Tri-Valley teens design urchin-catching submarine
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (450+ words) A team of Dublin High School students recently invented a sea urchin-capturing submarine in attempts to help protect kelp forests threatened by the purple critter. Dubbed the Aqua Sentinels, the group of five seniors garnered international attention for their submarine…...
California is "nowhere near" emissions goals. It"s still sending organic waste to landfills
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (645+ words) Clemens Stockreiter is CEO of RE: CIRCLE Solutions, a food waste processing company in Ontario, California. As someone who has spent years working in the waste management sector, I've watched California make bold climate commitments while simultaneously maintaining policies that…...
San Ramon council to consider consolidating three advisory bodies
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (328+ words) The San Ramon City Council is set to weigh in this week on a proposal from city staff that would replace three of the council's existing advisory bodies with a new Sustainability Advisory Committee. The proposed Sustainability Advisory Committee would…...
Letters: Cows in parks | BART parking lot | Rebuttal to the rebuttal
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (631+ words) Nonprofit local news for the Tri-Valley Livermore Area Recreation and Park District has begun a pilot program of grazing cattle on parkland, which has been done before. Shortly after graduating from Granada High School, I was running in Sycamore Grove…...
Livermore loses out on $1 B fusion facility as company chooses Albuquerque
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (510+ words) Pacific Fusion picked Albuquerque as the home for its planned billion-dollar fusion research facility Friday, passing over Bay Area finalists Livermore and Alameda after receiving a nearly $800 million incentive package in New Mexico." Livermore city officials, who gave initial approval…...
Guest Opinion: Our water future is at stake
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (552+ words) Zone 7 Water Agency delivers safe, reliable and affordable water to over a quarter of a million residents in eastern Alameda County. We do this by importing surface water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as a part of the State Water…...
San Ramon council to consider Climate Action Plan update
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (211+ words) The San Ramon City Council is set to vote this week on a new Climate Action Plan that has been in the works for several years after the adoption of an initial resolution calling for the update in 2021. The city-initiated…...