Infrastructure

Friday hearing: Will judge ‘have the [guts]’ to shut down bullet train?

On Aug. 16, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny handed down a landmark ruling against the $68 billion California bullet-train project. Kenny held that the state High-Speed Rail Authority’s plan to begin construction in the Central Valley in coming months

Will Surfrider’s distortions block Orange County desalination plant?

Joseph Perkins November 1, 2013

“Please join us in protecting our coast and ocean by sending the Coastal Commission a message today: DENY THE HUNTINGTON BEACH OCEAN DESALINATION FACILITY AND ENSURE THAT THIS PROJECT, AND THE MANY MORE TO FOLLOW, WON’T DESTROY PRECIOUS MARINE LIFE

CA not enjoying TX-sized boom in revenues from oil

Wayne Lusvardi October 31, 2013

California increased its revenues last year by $8 billion a year, through passing the Proposition 30 and Proposition 39 tax increases. Texas has added even more to its revenues, but did so a different way. The fracking boom added

State bullet-train contracts appear to violate federal grant conditions

Chris Reed October 29, 2013

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny’s Aug. 16 ruling concluded that the California High-Speed Rail Authority would break state law if it proceeded with construction of a small first portion of the state’s bullet-train project without having full funding in

Delta’s ‘Cadillac Desert’ image blown out of the water

Wayne Lusvardi October 28, 2013

Probably the most mentally riveting figure of speech in the history of California nature writing has been the book, “Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water,” by the late Marc Reisner. Part of the book was about

Wild card water bill surfaces with no earmarks

Wayne Lusvardi October 25, 2013

Is it possible to imagine this kind of water bill coming out of Congress? It would: custom essay order Include no political earmarks; Streamline environmental clearances for water projects; De-authorize $12 billion of backlogged dormant water projects; Take the selection

Is the Golden State the greenest and fairest of them all?

Wayne Lusvardi October 23, 2013

How To Get Your Ex Back Over Text Is California the greenest and fairest state when it comes to clean fuel standard regulations? No on both counts, contended the Wall Street Journal in a recent editorial, “California’s Green Trade

Smaller paper tears into bullet train; LAT maintains editorial silence

Chris Reed October 21, 2013

The Riverside Press-Enterprise last week published a crisp, definitive take on the bullet-train project's recent legal setbacks. Which indirectly raises the question: When will California's largest and most influential paper weigh in on this big issue? Here's part of the

Green actions cause one-third of human-caused earthquakes

Wayne Lusvardi October 16, 2013

adobe cs6 trial download Green energy advocates in California and the U.S. are trying to throw a monkey wrench into the proliferation of fracking oil and gas by claiming it induces major earthquakes (see here, here, here and here).

AG Kamala Harris ensures she won't go down with bullet-train Titanic

Chris Reed October 15, 2013

The saga of the California bullet train took a twist on Friday that at first seems strange but at second look appears to be shrewd politics by an ambitious officeholder playing the long game. On Aug. 16, Sacramento Superior Court