November 30, 2022 | Category:
NewsThirteen state attorneys general are urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reconsider its 2019 authorization allowing The Vanguard Group Inc. to invest in electric utilities, worrying that Vanguard’s well-known environmental activism and ESG demands will continue to guide decision-making and that Vanguard will use its financial position in the utilities to influence power portfolio […]
November 11, 2022 | Category:
NewsFrom E&E DAILY | E&E News | Essential Energy and Environment News (eenews.net) Advocates in the fossil fuel and clean energy industries are eyeing divided government as a chance to rekindle interest in a bipartisan permitting overhaul. In the fall, a plan from Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) failed after pushback […]
November 4, 2022 | Category:
NewsFrom CNBC: Homebuilders say 2023 is going to bring an even sharper downturn in the market, as high interest rates scare away buyers. Housing starts for single-family homes dropped nearly 19% year over year in September, according to the U.S. Census. Building permits, which are an indicator of future construction, fell 17%. “It is definitely […]
November 4, 2022 | Category:
NewsFrom PEW: Negotiators from nearly 200 countries will gather in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from Nov. 6-18 at the 27th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference —known as COP27—in an effort to agree on solutions to combat climate change. The meeting comes on the heels of a new climate report from the UNFCCC that found […]
October 13, 2022 | Category:
NewsWhen the sprawling Winding Creek development is complete, roughly 1,400 single-family homes and hundreds of apartments will fill the 500-acre site in northwest Roseville. There are currently between 250 and 300 people living in the neighborhood, said Karron Vasquez, a senior manager of marketing for Anthem Properties, the project developer. Another few hundred homes have […]
October 7, 2022 | Category:
NewsThe Supreme Court returned to the bench on Monday for the start of its new term. The justices did not waste any time in getting down to business, hearing argument in a long-running dispute over an Idaho couple’s efforts to build a home on land that they own – but which the Environmental Protection Agency […]
September 23, 2022 | Category:
NewsStory from Fox News HERE. NAHB CEO Jerry Howard assesses the housing slowdown after homebuilder sentiment fell for the ninth straight month on ‘Varney & Co.’
September 13, 2022 | Category:
NewsFrom the Los Angeles Times (link below): A habitat restoration project funded by a large agricultural water district is drawing criticism from environmental advocates. They say that while the project is based on claims of ecologically important marsh habitat, a large portion of the land is a high-and-dry former cattle pasture that does little to […]
September 13, 2022 | Category:
NewsFrom the Sacramento Bee (link below): California’s drought regulators have lost a major lawsuit that could undermine their legal authority to stop farms and cities from pulling water from rivers and streams. An appeals court ruled that the State Water Resources Control Board lacks the power to interfere with “senior” water rights holders and cannot […]
August 26, 2022 | Category:
NewsThe National Mining Association (NMA) today expressed alarm over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) introduction of new, duplicative financial assurance requirements under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) that disregard serious flaws raised by industry experts and financial institutions. In a process that has been continuously and needlessly rushed, EPA introduced its […]
