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Lessons from three years covering California’s housing crisis. How the federal government could empower cities. We can create better neighborhoods with small-scale change at the same time as we work on bigger structural shifts. Five lessons from reporting on California housing: Before reporter Matt Levin moves on to a new gig, he shares his five lessons from reporting on California’s housing crisis, including: There are three housing crises, not one; you either believe in market-rate housing or you don’t; and the construction workers union has more power than you think. (Matt Levin | CalMatters) Federal policy could liberate cities: Democrats and Republicans use the federal government to regulate what cities and towns around the United States can do, albeit in different ways. But in the progressive tradition of the New Deal era, the incoming administration should empower local governments to implement policies such as local broadband and transportation policy without ....
Wind power environmental impacts include land use issues and challenges to wildlife and habitat. The environmental impacts associated with solar power can include land use and habitat loss, water use, and the use of hazardous materials in manufacturing. 1 A recent study finds 2,206 onshore wind, hydropower, and solar PV energy generation facilities have ‘already encroached on many of the word’s most important places for conserving biodiversity’, degrading 896 protected areas, 749 key biodiversity areas, and 40 distinct wilderness areas. 2 Even more concerning, the number of active renewable energy facilities inside important conservation areas is poised to increase by about 42% by 2028. To avert climate change, the United Nations demands a 10-fold increase in renewable energy by 2060. This emphasis will especially occur in developing regions like Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where the most biodiverse regions in the world are most threatened. ....
Channel3000.com December 18, 2020 6:00 AM John Egan - Forbes Advisor Posted: Updated: December 19, 2020 7:06 AM On average, the roughly 1.5 million to 2 million people in the U.S. who drive for both Uber and Lyft earn $18.15 an hour before expenses. Just one car accident, though, could easily eat up that money and more. That’s why Uber and Lyft drivers likely need separate rideshare insurance to supplement both personal auto insurance and the coverage that’s automatically provided by rideshare companies. A driver’s financial stability could ride on whether they’ve got rideshare insurance. The Stages of Rideshare Driving To understand the insurance for rideshare driving, it’s important to know the three phases while a rideshare app is on: ....
Print This is the Dec. 17, 2020, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. It’s been nearly five years since the chilly February morning when I shuffled into the back of a conference room at Salt Lake City’s convention center to watch the federal government auction off oil and gas drilling rights for up to 45,000 acres of public lands. There were nearly 100 protesters in the room too, part of a growing campaign urging the Obama administration to stop allowing new fossil fuel extraction on lands and waters owned by the American people. ....
Print This is the Dec. 10, 2020, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. More than 111 million acres of U.S. wilderness have been designated since 1964, when the Wilderness Act was signed by President Johnson. It’s the highest level of protection the federal government offers, ensuring that wild lands remain free of permanent roads, motor vehicles, commercial enterprise and structures of any kind. The law’s definition of wilderness is the stuff of legend: “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” ....