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Environment Report: Tijuana River's Toxic Gas Gets Legislated State Sen. Steve Padilla is running a bill to strengthen regulations for toxic hydrogen sulfide gas.

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The great @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social testifying on behalf of AB 2074, which @cayimby.bsky.social is proud to co-sponsor! It's time to build housing and revive California's downtowns!

If you want to end the California housing crisis, don't just post about it: come to YIMBY Lobby Day on May 19 in Sacramento. We will schedule you for a meeting with your representatives, connect you with neighbors, and coach you on how to advocate effectively!
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Embracing Clean Heat - Evergreen Collaborative The My Notes feature does not save or track any personal information—it only stores the images, video, and text you add.

66% of the highest-emitting industrial boilers sit in disadvantaged communities. These aren't edge cases.

States already have Clean Air Act authority to set stricter limits. The legal tools exist.

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Reviving Plurilateral Trade Agreements for the Critical Mineral Era Supply chain security is at an inflection point. Critical minerals—essential to the energy transition, advanced technologies, and defense equipment—face major vulnerabilities, including market…

China controls 85% of critical mineral processing, not by luck, but through subsidies and predatory pricing we let go unchallenged for decades.

A multilateral trade bloc with mining nations is the pragmatic fix tariffs alone can't provide.

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San Diego alerts residents to toxic gas at 30 ppb. EPA research says 1.4 ppb causes harm.

That 20x gap means South Bay's kids and elderly are breathing dangerous air while regulators debate standards.

Washington legislature passes bill to establish statewide transmission authority to strengthen the grid The Washington State Legislature has passed Senate Bill 6355 to establish the Washington Electric Transmission Authority.

Since 2015, hundreds of clean energy projects sought grid connection in Washington state. One was approved.

A new statewide transmission authority is basic infrastructure competence that the grid demands.

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Clean energy policy isn't a threat to steel, chemicals, or fossil fuels.

It's their biggest growth market.

New modeling shows $11.2T in added output by 2050, with permitting reform alone cutting project costs for every sector.

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Why Banning Oil or Gas Exports Would Be a Bad Idea Third Way is a national think tank and advocacy organization that champions moderate policy and political ideas. Our work on the center left acts as a critical bulwark against political extremism.

Banning oil exports to lower gas prices sounds intuitive, but US refineries were built for heavy imported crude, not the light crude we export.

Restricting exports would tighten global supply, raise import costs, and hurt the allies we need most right now.

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Federal promise of housing through 2030 ending early for 650 San Diego families The Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) Program, established by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic is running out of money nearly four years ahead of schedule. …

650 San Diego families are losing federal housing vouchers four years early, a broken promise that will push vulnerable people toward homelessness.

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San Diegans are paying nearly $6 a gallon while the U.S. spends $11B in six days on a war with no defined objective.

@sarajacobs.house.gov is right to demand accountability.

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California's density bonus law — letting developers build bigger in exchange for affordable units — drove nearly half of all new multifamily housing in 2024.

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Solving the Clean Energy Infrastructure Finance Rubik’s Cube The question is not whether the capital exists (it does!), nor whether energy solutions are available (they are!), but whether we can align energy finance quickly enough to channel the right types of…

A carbon capture tax credit sat on the books for 12 years with almost no investment because Treasury never issued guidance.

The technology wasn't the problem. Policy misalignment was.

Passing laws means nothing if agencies can't implement them.

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Asking Americans: What’s Causing High Energy Prices and How Do We Fix It? Third Way is a national think tank and advocacy organization that champions moderate policy and political ideas. Our work on the center left acts as a critical bulwark against political extremism.

25% of Americans can't afford energy bills today.

Voters blame utilities and data centers, not clean energy or fossil fuels.

The winning policy: build more of everything while making corporations pay their fair share of grid costs.

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The Mayor of El Cajon is such an incredibly hypocrite.

He has already served over 12 years, yet attacks County Supervisors for doing the same thing

Affirmed Housing Delivers 100-Unit Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Community at Rancho Bernardo Transit Station in San Diego | MultifamilyBiz.com SAN DIEGO, CA - The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) and Affirmed Housing, a leading provider of affordable and supportive housing throughout California, announce the completion of…

San Diego just turned a transit parking lot into 100 affordable homes at Rancho Bernardo Station.

Building housing on public land near transit is exactly how cities solve two problems at once.

More MTS sites should follow this model.

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Opinion: Free beach parking is a feel-good policy that is sure to backfire Two North County cities use parking fees for beach maintenance and related needs.

Free parking isn’t free and free beach parking sure ain’t free!

Let’s fund our lifeguards keep our bathrooms clean, and reduce congestion.

We can do that by doing what Del Mar and Oceanside do and charge for parking!

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Testimony: State of the bulk power system - Niskanen Center Testimony of Dr. Liza Reed, Director of Climate and Energy Policy at Niskanen Center for the United States Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Hearing: “State of the Bulk Power System.”

Fragmented regional grids cost consumers $200M in one winter storm alone.

The U.S. needs federal authority to site interstate transmission, or AI data centers, and the jobs they bring, will go where the power is.

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Nuclear permitting that took 27 months now takes 18. The bipartisan ADVANCE Act is working!

Reforming the NRC doesn't mean building the clean, reliable baseload power the grid actually needs.

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Newly appointed Imperial Beach mayor highlights sewage crisis, new initiatives during State of the City address Newly appointed Mayor Mitch McKay described Imperial Beach as "a city that confronts challenges head on" during his first State of the City address on Thursday.

Imperial Beach has endured years of beach closures from Tijuana sewage while the federal government drags its feet.

Mayor McKay is right to fight for toll road money for cleanup, but a city this small shouldn't have to beg this hard for basic environmental justice.

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Omg.

Councilmember Raul Campillo is now saying we should call folks facing downtown parking rates "parking-burdened" in the same way that are call folks with high housing costs rent-burdened.

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We can’t ‘incarcerate our way out of crime.’ But we can deter a lot more of it. - Niskanen Center Musk’s claim that incarceration works to control crime is the beginning of the analysis, not the end. The next question is whether it works better than the available alternatives.

$4.6B on California's Three Strikes law prevented 31,000 crimes. The same money spent on policing could have prevented 1 million.

Severity doesn't deter crime — certainty does.

Smarter enforcement beats longer sentences every time.

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Abundance is out. Learning from other countries is in. Rather than get caught up in the buzzword flavor of the month, the policymaking ecosystem should study what’s actually working.

Finland cut long-term homelessness 68% by housing people first, then wrapping in services.

That required coordination across every level of government which is something America's fragmented system makes hard.

Borrowing the idea without fixing that gap won't work.

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House Democrats’ Energy Bills Relief Act Would Lower Americans’ Bills By Building More Cheap, Clean Energy - Evergreen Action The My Notes feature does not save or track any personal information—it only stores the images, video, and text you add.

House Democrats' Energy Bills Relief Act backs cheap, clean energy to cut utility bills, a counter to federal policies that have driven costs up.

San Diegans, paying some of the highest energy rates in the country, have a direct stake in if this passes.

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Woke Trump strikes again.

First increasing cost of oil transport thru Strait, and now spurring wind and solar.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit.

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County supervisors used obscure events fund to solicit over $100K from influential donors since 2024 A KPBS investigation found supervisor offices tapped influential companies, associations and individuals for monetary gifts. Some of the entities had business before the county at the time.

SD County supervisors collected $100K+ in corporate gifts through an obscure fund with almost no limits.

Donors had business before the county. Filings came in late with vague descriptions.

Legal? Probably.
Acceptable? No.

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USDOT claims record low traffic deaths. Job done? Really?  - Smart Growth America About us

39,254 Americans died on roads in 2024, near COVID-era highs. The feds called it a record low.

That's spin: safer cars help drivers, but pedestrian and cyclist deaths keep climbing.

Peer nations prove lower numbers are achievable.

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Jim Desmond spent 8 years as North County's supervisor calling government "the bottleneck" ...while being the government.

Families still can't buy.

Now he wants a congressional seat. San Diegans should demand a better answer than a farewell speech.

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