Imperial County residents:
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Desert Politics, renewable energy | 1 Comment »ACTION ALERT: The Imperial County Board of Supervisors rejected a resolution today that would have created the Imperial County Green Building Retrofit and Workforce Development Program. The program would have required energy efficiency upgrades such as lighting and air conditioning ...
Save San Bernardino County’s ORV Ordinance
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Posted in Desert Politics, off-road vehicles | No Comments »[Passed along by Phil Klasky:] Supervisors Mitzelfelt and Derry are planning to eliminate the staging portion of the off-road vehicle ordinance 3973 at a meeting of the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors in March. This would allow as many as ...
Provisions of the California Desert Protection Act of 2010
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in Desert Politics, Public Lands, mojave, off-road vehicles, renewable energy, wilderness | 1 Comment »DPC supports Senator Feinstein’s introduction of the CDPA 2010. The bill, S 2921, adds protective status for large swaths of the California deserts and we applaud the Senator for crafting legislation to preserve our beloved California Desert. There are, however, ...
Joshua Tree National Park protected from giant landfill
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Posted in BLM, Desert Politics, Nature Matters, wilderness | 2 Comments »Still untrashed. Photo by thirteenthbat Tuesday, Nov. 10 2009 — Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed environmentalists a major victory by ruling that the federal Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) approval of what would have been the world’s largest ...
Tell Interior Secretary Salazar to shut down ORV abuse
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Desert Politics, off-road vehicles | 1 Comment »As Ken Salazar settles into his role as the nation's 50th Secretary of the Interior, we have a chance to make our voices heard regarding one of the most crucial threats to our public lands: abuse by Off-Road Vehicles. Our ...
Interior fast-tracks Big Solar on public lands
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Desert Politics, Endangered Species, Public Lands, renewable energy | 3 Comments »The Department of the Interior announced Monday that 676,048 acres of public lands — 24 tracts in five Western States — are being fast-tracked for development by the solar electrical generation industry. The tracts, called Solar Energy Study areas, will be scrutinized to ...
10-Point Plan for Obama
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in Desert Politics | Comments OffWe were left temporarily speechless by the election of Barack Obama Tuesday night. But now it's time for the country to get down to work repairing the damage of the last eight years. With that in mind, here's a ...
More Sunrise Powerlink Info
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Anza-Borrego, Desert Politics, Sunrise Powerlink | 2 Comments »This is the only kind of sunrise we need to see from the San Felipe Hills -- or anywhere else in San Diego's backcountry. UPDATE: The San Diego Union-Tribune covered Sempra's donation to the Governor today, May 10, in this article. The ...
California Desert Conservation Area Left Out of National Landscape Conservation Act
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Desert Politics, Public Lands | Comments OffAfton Canyon, just one of the many spots in the California desert left out of today's passage of the National Landscape Conservation Act. Two hours ago, the United States House of Representatives passed the National Landscape Conservation System Act. This is good news ...
Bad Brushclearing Bill Could Affect High Desert Areas
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Desert Living, Desert Politics | Comments OffUPDATE: According to Save the Chaparral, SB 1618 was defeated in Sen. Steinberg's committee last week. Good work! A bill in the California Senate would expand authorized brush-clearing for fire prevention around homes from the current 100 feet to anywhere between 300 and a thousand ...
