Transportation, Land Use, California Today, Water

2020 Summer Newsletter

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Capital Insiders

Coastal Conservancy Releases Funds for San Clemente Dam Removal

Last week, the California State Coastal Conservancy voted to authorize a grant award of up to $32 million of public funding to California American Water (CAW)...

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Capital Insiders, Water

Californians Voice Opposition to The Governor’s Delta Tunnel Project

Two weeks ago, Governor Brown evoked media uproar when he unveiled his plans to construct a pair of huge underground water tunnels to convey water from the...

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Capital Insiders

Governor Brown Plans To Endorse Billion Dollar Delta Boondoggle

On Wednesday, Governor Jerry Brown is expected to announce the preferred project alternative for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). Materials that were...

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PCL in the Press

PCL in the news: The environment will not benefit from the $35 billion peripheral tunnels water project

Build it now, figure it out later is the approach the Brown and Obama Adminstrations are endorsing. But after they spend billions building new tunnels, the...

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Capital Insiders

High Speed Rail Keeps Chugging Along (For Now)

For those who have been reading the papers over the weekend (or better yet, if you were following PCL’s Twitter or Facebook accounts last week), you know...

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High Speed Rail, Capital Insiders, Water

Governor Brown Proposes Weakening Environmental Review on California’s Largest Infrastructure Projects

The development of high speed rail and major water infrastructure projects for the Bay Delta are clearly top priorities for Governor Brown. Brown sees such...

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Transportation, High Speed Rail, Capital Insiders

Is High Speed Rail on Track Approaching a Fork in the Road?

In 2010, California State Auditor Elaine Howle indicated that the financing for high speed rail, California’s most expensive infrastructure project ever, was...

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Transportation, High Speed Rail, Press Releases

All Aboard! Rail Authority Approves 1st Section of Rail Line: Destination… Nowhere

Last week, as anticipated, the California High Speed Rail Authority (Authority) unanimously approved the first section of rail line to be developed. The $4.15...

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High Speed Rail, Press Releases

Under the Microscope: Senate Questions Rail Authority’s Ridership Numbers

Last Thursday, the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee held yet another oversight hearing on California’s High Speed Rail project. The focus of this...

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