July 2018 Join us for an Open House: Improving Street Safety in SoMa Transportation Authority staff are working to improve street safety at 10 intersections in the South of Market neighborhood where freeway on- or off-ramps meet city streets. Our project team spent the past few months gathering feedback by meeting with the community […]
Continue ReadingVoters see environmental issues as key in the governor’s race. Statewide Survey: Californians and the Environment Mark Baldassare, Dean Bonner, Alyssa Dykman, Lunna Lopes Key findings A majority of likely voters (56%) say the candidates’ environmental positions are very important in determining their vote in the governor’s race (67% of Democrats, 54% of independents, and […]
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Continue ReadingNewsletter July 25, 2018 AGENCIES PROPOSE REVISIONS OF ENDANGERED SPECIES REGULATIONS The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have proposed important revisions of their regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Services would change four aspects of their regulations: (1) the way they […]
Continue ReadingINFRASTRUCTURE Shuster proposal aims to ‘reignite’ reform efforts Maxine Joselow, E&E News reporter Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) yesterday released a draft infrastructure bill in an effort to reinvigorate stalled momentum on the issue. The draft language contains a plethora of proposals for addressing the nation’s “crumbling […]
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Continue ReadingConference News CASA Conference Features 2018 US Water Prize Winner Announcing more exciting news for this year’s Annual Conference in Monterey! We will hear from Ted Henifin, general manager of Hampton Roads Sanitation District. Hampton Roads is the public sector winner of this year’s U.S. Water Prize, awarded earlier this month as part of the […]
Continue ReadingENS Federal Report – July 20, 2018 View Report on ENS Website Share Tweet Link Forward House Approves USEPA Spending Bill on almost Party Line Vote In an unusual vote, the House of Representatives generally voted along party lines to approve the second “minibus” spending bill H.R. 6147. H.R. 6147 packages budgets for the U.S. Environmental […]
Continue ReadingNewsletter July 10, 2018 Janus: A Time to Cast Away “To everything there is a season . . . : a time to keep, and a time to cast away[.]” Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 (KJV). Very recently, the United States Supreme Court held that Illinois’ extraction of “agency fees” from nonconsenting public-sector employees violates the First […]
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