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Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/22/raw-sewage-in-creeks-sunnyvale-and-mountain-view-argue-in-court-the-clean-water-act-should-not-apply-to-them/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mercurynews.com/2024/01/22/raw</span><span class="invisible">-sewage-in-creeks-sunnyvale-and-mountain-view-argue-in-court-the-clean-water-act-should-not-apply-to-them/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PoliticsOfSprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliticsOfSprawl</span></a>: miles of aging underground clay sewer pipes throughout the two cities are cracked and leaking untreated sewage into storm drain systems, which empty into the creeks. Sackett V. EPA, which developers had sought for years, could mean millions of acres of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/wetlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wetlands</span></a> nationwide lose protection. <br />Mountain View and Sunnyvale argue that because Stevens Creek, Calabazas Creek and the Sunnyvale East Channel run dry for some parts of the year, the creeks don’t have a continuous connection with San Francisco Bay and should not fall under the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CleanWaterAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CleanWaterAct</span></a>.<br />They went further, embracing an argument that Justice Clarence Thomas had pushed, but which was not endorsed by the conservative majority, that only bodies of water that boats can navigate should be bound by the law’s pollution protections.<br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StopDeterioratingCarbonSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopDeterioratingCarbonSinks</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BayDeadZoneAlgaeBlooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BayDeadZoneAlgaeBlooms</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RegulatoryCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RegulatoryCapture</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-state-is-leaving-tribal-cultural-resources-at-mercy-of-solar-developers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/washing</span><span class="invisible">ton-state-is-leaving-tribal-cultural-resources-at-mercy-of-solar-developers</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TransituonsColonialAppropriations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransituonsColonialAppropriations</span></a>: Palmer called the situation “extraordinary,” noting that she had found a significant network of interconnected archaeological sites from before the arrival of white settlers.<br />Palmer also forwarded her findings to two tribal nations whose resources would be impacted: the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, where the škwáxčənəxʷ and šnp̍əšqʷáw̉šəxʷ people are enrolled today. <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PoliticsOfSprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliticsOfSprawl</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SaveRooftopSolar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveRooftopSolar</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ChristianZionistsEthniclyCleansedIndianCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianZionistsEthniclyCleansedIndianCountry</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StopIntrusionIntoTheWUIAndRematriateLandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopIntrusionIntoTheWUIAndRematriateLandBack</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>flipping the industry model – instead of having thousands of customers hooked on a system of massive, centralized, increasingly-expensive and unreliable power plants – GMP is decentralizing. Not just symbolically, but by literally putting its power source in customers’ homes, businesses, schools, etc.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SaveRooftopSolar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveRooftopSolar</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PoliticsOfSprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliticsOfSprawl</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://substack.com/inbox/post/138425647" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/inbox/post/138425</span><span class="invisible">647</span></a></p>
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