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Environmental commission proposes plan to eliminate single-use bags - Los Altos Town Crier border=

Environmental commission proposes plan to eliminate single-use bags - Los Altos Town Crier

Los Altos Town Crier, CA
The Los Altos Environmental Commission May 11 unanimously approved a plan to promote elimination of single-use bags. The proposal is scheduled for discussion at Tuesday's city council meeting. The plan supports the use of eco-friendly, reusable bags at …
Los Altos Town Crier

'Smart growth' or environmental nightmare on Redwood City's bay ... - San Jose Mercury News border=

'Smart growth' or environmental nightmare on Redwood City's bay … - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
Roughly 440 acres would be converted back to tidal wetlands, and an additional 250 would become parks, baseball fields and soccer fields. The whole project would take 25 years to develop. Environmentalists have a long history of defeating bay-front …
CBS 5

Final environmental report finds no barriers to proposed ... - San Jose Mercury News border=

Final environmental report finds no barriers to proposed … - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 
American Baptist Homes of the West, owner of Pilgrim Haven retirement community, seeks to more than double the size of the 103992-square-foot collection of housing units and buildings at Los Altos Avenue and Pine Lane to 226945 square feet. …

Tom Jordan: An environmental perspective - Palo Alto Online border=

Tom Jordan: An environmental perspective - Palo Alto Online

Palo Alto Online, CA - 
"You'd drive down to the south or east and go through 300 yards of orchard — and then there'd be a housing development. "It's not so much that it was bad; it was just completely unplanned." The city hired its first professional planner. …

Drilling off Alaska can't proceed without further environmental review - Los Angeles Times border=

Drilling off Alaska can't proceed without further environmental review - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times
An appeals panel rules that the Interior Department didn't adequately analyze a Bush administration plan to auction off leases in the Arctic seas.
Wall Street Journal
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Questions linger about final environmental review for Moraga ... - San Jose Mercury News border=

Questions linger about final environmental review for Moraga … - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By Paul Thissen The environmental review is only for the development of the Moraga Center in the town's downtown, but questions and concerns about traffic, affordable housing and the plan's economic feasibility reverberate throughout Lamorinda. …

Environmental elegance: LAH home proves you don’t need to … - Los Altos Town Crier

Los Altos Town Crier, CA
Amenities include a library, media room with four TVs, home theater, indoor spa with exercise room, sauna and steam room, a 2000-cubic-foot environmentally controlled wine cellar, outdoor kitchen and 20-foot-by-40-foot outdoor pool and spa. …