First of all, I largely agree with all of the major points made by the commentary column authors (“Make a better plan,” Jan. 15). Rather than a habitat conservation plan, it is an expanded off-highway vehicle conservation plan. As pointed out, the environmental basis of the 2021 California Coastal Commission decision to phase out vehicles […]
Charles Varni
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Civil rights in the ‘blast zone’
The government should be required to notify everyone within 1 mile of the rail line of the potential dangers associated with oil train
The Phillips 66 oil train terminal project proposes to bring mile-long oil tanker trains, each carrying 2.4 million gallons of toxic, flammable, explosive tar-sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada, through our county and communities, five times a week for the next 20 years. The imported oil is refined primarily for export sale to Asia. The […]