On April 10, Barbara Mikulski, Dianne Feinstein, Lamar Alexander and Richard Shelby co-signed a letter to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works members Barbara Boxer and David Vitter expressing concerns about certain provisions in the WRDA bill. Read the Letter Here
Continue ReadingSee below a letter signed by 132 organizations in protest of the advancement of the Water Resources Development Act of 2013, or WRDA. 132 Groups Oppose Advancement of WRDA (PDF)
Continue ReadingOn Wednesday, April 10, 2013 President Barack Obama released the Administration’s Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2014, which begins October 1, 2013. The Budget proposed total FY 2014 spending, including entitlements, of $3.77 trillion. Of that, $1.058 trillion is in discretionary spending. The Budget cancels out the sequestration cuts which, if included, would have resulted […]
Continue ReadingPlease click the link below to read the ENS Resources’ special FY 14 budget report: ENS Resources FY 14 White House Budget Proposal Summary
Continue ReadingSan Francisco Chronicle, Bakersfield Californian and Seven Newspapers in the Los Angeles Newspaper Group all Editorialize Calling on Legislature to Reform CEQA The San Francisco Chronicle, Bakersfield Californian and seven newspapers from the Los Angeles Newspaper Group including the Los Angeles Daily News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Pasadena Star-News, Whittier Daily News, Torrance Daily […]
Continue Reading..and, “CEQA changes offered by Weiner make sense,” April 8, 2013
Continue ReadingAnother Example of CEQA Misuse: Edward II Inn Affordable Housing, San Francisco From the CEQA Working Group Coalition: Today we’ve released the tenth case study in our weekly series profiling examples of misuses of CEQA: Edward II Inn affordable housing in San Francisco. A nonprofit looked to renovate an existing building to provide up to […]
Continue ReadingA Perkins Coie News Update In an opinion published on March 28, 2013, a California court of appeal answered three questions under the California Environmental Quality Act that the published decisions have not yet addressed: What is the proper interpretation of the statutory exemption for housing projects that are consistent with a specific plan? How should […]
Continue ReadingACWA’s Board of Directors approved guidelines for modifying the 2014 water bond and adopted policy principles on managing California’s headwaters at a meeting last week in Sacramento. The ACWA Board, already on record in support of the $11.14 billion water bond currently set for the November 2014 ballot, reconvened the California Water Finance Task […]
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