BPC Executive Director Search Guidance to BCDC
BPC Search Guidance to BCDC
Continue ReadingPorts & Highway Bill
PLEA FOR THE PORTS: PORTS Caucus co-founder Janice Hahn is urging the transportation conference not to forget the role ports play in moving goods. She’s sending a letter to the group calling for a national freight policy. “In order to grow our economy,” she writes, “it is essential that we have a national plan on […]
Continue ReadingCalifornia Trade Report – Beacon Economics
via Beacon Economics May 10, 2012 – LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – California exporters posted another profitable month in March, continuing an unbroken streak of year-over-year increases in the state’s merchandise export trade going back to November 2009. The value of goods shipped abroad by California businesses in March reached $14.62 billion, a nominal gain of 4.8% over […]
Continue ReadingAmid Push to Fight Global Warming, Bay Area Prefers Carrot to the Stick
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Continue ReadingRAMP Authors Boustany and Courtney Lead Charge to Defend America’s Ports in Transportation Bill Conference
5-8-12 Boustany Courtney RAMP letter to House Conferees
Continue ReadingAlviso Working Group – June 21 @ 6pm
South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project Notice of a meeting of the Alviso Ponds/Santa Clara Working Group on the evening of Thursday, June 21, for a briefing on the Shoreline Study partners’ selected plan for flood risk management and ecosystem restoration in the Alviso area, which incorporates input received from area stakeholders. Information will be provided on the plan’s costs, […]
Continue ReadingCalifornia State Lands Commission Supports S 412
SLC Support Resolution of HR 104 and S 412
Continue ReadingURGENT! Contact Sen Boxer to pass S 412 for Harbor Maintenance Tax Fund provisions
Call to Action! Contact Senator Boxer to urge her, as a cosponsor of S 412, the Harbor Maintenance Act, to support inclusion of the enforcement provisions included in both of the original Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund bills that involve maintenance of our federal harbors. Sample letter can be found here: Senate HMTF letter to Senator […]
Continue ReadingDraft California Eelgrass Mitigation Policy for Public Review – due May 8
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has recently released a Draft California Eelgrass Mitigation Policy for public review. The Federal Register Notice containing information about the review is online at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-03-09/pdf/2012-5811.pdf, and the public comment period is open through May 8. The policy applies to all projects in the vicinity of eelgrass beds along the […]
Continue ReadingPerkins Coie: California Environmental, Energy, Resources & Land Use
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