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Wilkes Community Group | 7-30-14 | NE Cameron Blvd., Right of Way, between NE 166th Ave and 17200-17400 NE Marine Dr | Environmental Review - NOTICE | LU 14-174355 EN
2014-07-31 00:19:42| PortlandOnline
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Delta tunnel plan blasted by key environmental group
2014-07-30 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: The state's plan to build a pair of 35-mile tunnels under the Delta would cause the extinction of winter-run Chinook salmon, steep declines in dozens of other species and devastate water quality in San Francisco Bay, an environmental group said Wednesday. "This project would be a major step in the wrong direction," said Gary Bobker, policy analyst for the Bay Institute, which submitted its 250-page findings this week to the state's Department of Water Resources as it updates its Bay Delta Conservation...
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Environmental groups lag nation in diversity
2014-07-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New American Media: Mainstream environmental groups are not mirroring the increasing racial diversity in the United States, according to a new report. While minorities make up 36 percent of the population, they account for no more than 16 percent of the staff of environmental organizations -- a figure that hasn't budged much in several decades. The report's author Dorceta E. Taylor, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment, says more diverse hiring reflects...
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Environmental Advisers to Patrick Administration Quit Over Climate Change Dispute
2014-07-30 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: Three members of an environmental advisory committee for the Patrick administration resigned Monday in protest of policies they say hinder the state's goal of significantly cutting the greenhouse gases that cause climate change by the end of the decade. In a letter to officials at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, the members of the Global Warming Solutions Act Implementation Advisory Committee called the administration's recent policies and support of a controversial energy...
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Minorities aren't well represented in environmental groups, study says
2014-07-30 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Minorities and people of color have not managed to break the "green ceiling" inside environmental organizations, and remain underrepresented on their staffs, according to a report released Monday. The report found that while people of color make up about 38 percent of the U.S. population, they represent 12 percent to 15.5 percent of the staffs of environmentally focused foundations, nonprofits and government agencies. None of the largest environmental organizations has a person of color as president,...
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