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Wishy-Washy Wrangling over Water Works
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 12.23.2008
Before the end of 2008, the Delta Vision Committee will send Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, “one of the most ambitious infrastructure and habitat restoration projects ever proposed in America,” according to news reports. The plan will restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a prime source of drinking water and irrigation for two-thirds of Californians.
Exposed: Activists’ Attacks on Meat Production Intensify
Submitted by Troy Hadrick on 12.19.2008
In 2006 the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a report, “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” that was so full of absurd claims, dressed up to look like science, that I made a mental note to revisit the issue.
PRI Report Shows California’s Water Problems Are Mostly Due to Uneven Distribution, Not Lack of Supply
Submitted on 12.10.2008
San Francisco – California should lift bans and restrictions to help alleviate the water distribution problem, according to Go with the Flow: Why water markets can solve California’s water crisis, a Pacific Research Institute report released today.
Air Board's analysis holds many flaws
Submitted by Thomas Tanton on 12.7.2008
This is not the time to implement policies that will further cripple California's economy and put a disproportionate financial burden on the state's poor and elderly, but that is exactly what the California Air Resources Board is planning to do by implementing the Global Warming Solutions Act.
With substantial costs coming to light, CARB should delay any action on further implementation of AB32
Submitted by Thomas Tanton on 12.5.2008
There is a consensus. No, not the one about the science of climate change being “settled.” There’s a consensus that the Air Resources Board has fouled up its plan to regulate greenhouse gasses. The California Air Resources Board intentionally skewed its analysis of the economic effects of its proposed climate action plan, according to a review by state-commissioned economists and by the non-partisan Legislative Analyst Office.
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