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San Bernardino County’s Approach to Eradicating Illegal Cannabis May Go Statewide

June 7, 2022 10:27 amJune 7, 2022 11:18 am

The state might be following in the footsteps of several California counties by instituting bigger fines and penalties to push out illegal cannabis cultivation. San Bernardino is sponsoring California Assemblyman Thurston Smith’s bill, hoping to get measures similar to the...

The Abundance Choice, Part 12: Numbers Don’t Lie

June 7, 2022 2:30 amJune 7, 2022 4:13 pm

Scope insensitivity happens whenever a statistic has huge emotional impact but in reality has little relevance to the issues and challenges it purports to illuminate. It is scope insensitivity that makes conscientious Californians willing to put a bucket in their shower....

The Abundance Choice, Part 11: The Desalination Option

June 5, 2022 2:30 amJune 6, 2022 5:09 pm

On May 12, the California Coastal Commission Board of Directors voted 11-0 to deny the application from Poseidon Water to build a desalination plant in Huntington Beach. Since 1998, Poseidon has spent over $100 million on design and permit work for this plant. At least half...

The Abundance Choice, Part 10: Time to Stop Wasting Wastewater

June 3, 2022 2:30 amJune 4, 2022 3:59 pm

If there is any source of water that ought to be optimized, it is the wastewater produced by California’s urban centers. Perennially issuing from sewage treatment plants throughout the state, every year this torrent of mostly treated effluent is equivalent in volume...

Superior Court Judge Orders Halt To Statewide Pest Prevention Spraying Program

June 1, 2022 3:39 pmJune 2, 2022 9:01 am

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James Arguelles ruled on Tuesday that a state program that sprays pesticides on public and private land is to be halted within two months due to state officials not looking into potential health effects properly....

The Abundance Choice, Part 7: An Environmentalist Juggernaut

May 26, 2022 2:25 amMay 30, 2022 1:32 pm

Environmentalists in California, who constitute much of the vanguard of environmentalism in the world, have normalized extremism. The solutions they’ve proposed to supposedly save the planet, and the premises they’ve convinced millions of people to accept as beyond debate, constitute...

CA State Water Board Adopts Emergency Water Conservation Regulation

May 25, 2022 5:38 pmMay 25, 2022 4:18 pm

Did you know that the State of California has 436 water suppliers – both urban water retailers and wholesalers? These local water agencies and suppliers are now going to be pushing “more aggressive conservation.” Tuesday, in response to Governor Gavin...