The developer of a 40.6 million square foot California development project for a large-scale logistics operation (“World Logistics Center Project [Project]”) and various.
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The state’s rebate program for electric cars has run out money and will end unless the Legislature vetoes the governor’s plan.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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California’s electric-car rebate program has run out of money, and buyers on a rebate wait-list may not get checks.Ramin Rahimian / Special to The Chronicle 2018Show MoreShow Less
SACRAMENTO California’s main rebate program to coax more drivers to buy electric cars has run out of money and there’s no guarantee that buyers on the waiting list will get checks later.
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In his final press conference, Malaysia’s outgoing police chief blasted his boss on Friday for intervening in daily departmental affairs, saying this hampered his work and divided the force.
The meddling continued even after he reported it to the prime minister, Police Inspector-General Abdul Hamid Bador said. But his boss, Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin, said he had the authority to involve himself in police matters.
“He [the home minister] is only given the mandate to set policies, the direction of the police force. It is not his job to decide who becomes police commissioner and where, or who becomes the director and where. … Hamzah insisted on assuming the power to decide who will be placed where,” Abdul Hamid told reporters.
MORENO VALLEY (CN) A coalition of environmental activist groups reached a $47 million settlement Thursday with the developer of a Southern California mega-warehouse who promised to incorporate green technology at the facility and invest in conservation efforts for the surrounding area.
For the better part of a decade, residents of Moreno Valley, California have been aware of the World Logistics Center warehouse project. Environmental advocacy groups called the proposed 40.6 million-square-foot facility a “climate and air-quality disaster” that would emit tons of greenhouse gases in the region.
In 2015, the groups sued developer Highland Fairview and the city after Moreno Valley approved the project. In 2018, a Riverside Superior Court judge ruled the project’s environmental review was thin on details on its carbon footprint. Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, sued the city again in 2020 after the city approved a revised report on the project’s environ
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SoCal Warehouse Builder Agrees To $47M In Green Projects
Law360 (April 30, 2021, 3:41 PM EDT) A California warehouse developer has reached a settlement to invest up to $47 million in electric vehicles and equipment, rooftop solar and other green energy infrastructure to settle a dispute with environmental groups over the project s environmental impact.
The agreement which also includes money to protect wildlife and minimize the project s impact on the nearby community was announced Thursday in California courts by the developer, Highland Fairview Properties, and the environmental groups, which include the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, the Coalition for Clean Air and the San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society.