\u201cThis project shows what\u2019s possible when multiple benefits work in sync to create something exceptional to meet community needs for a healthier environment and greater resilience to a changing climate,\u201d said Samuel Assefa, Director of the Governor\u2019s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI). \u201cThe CEQA judicial streamlining certification is a demonstration of California\u2019s innovative approach to delivering needed infrastructure more expeditiously while protecting resources.\u201d<\/p>\n
The project, a partnership between the City of Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay Ferry, will replace the long-shuttered Berkeley Municipal Pier with a new dual-purpose pier supporting public recreation and an all-electric ferry service linking the Berkeley waterfront to the San Francisco and Larkspur ferry terminals. At full buildout, the project is projected to remove roughly 19,000 vehicle miles per day from Bay Area roads.<\/p>\n
The Governor certified<\/a> the project utilizing tools to build more faster that were extended in the historic infrastructure package<\/a> passed with the support of the Legislature. The certification means a streamlined process for legal challenges that can otherwise cause long delays.<\/p>\n House Republicans choose Big Oil\u2019s profits over our kids\u2019 health<\/p>\n Instead of voting to make life more affordable and healthy for Americans, House Republicans this week \u2014 in their last legislative push before vacation \u2014 voted to choke port and harbor communities and harm our children with dirtier air. The two resolutions, advanced by two of California\u2019s most well-known petroleum puppets (Rep. Vince Fong and Rep. James Gallagher), claim to roll back California\u2019s At-Berth and Commercial Harbor Craft clean air protections\u2014even though a federal court has already ruled<\/a> that this Trump Administration rollback effort is illegal. Those protections keep large ships and working boats from spewing dirty diesel pollution at California\u2019s docks and into the neighborhoods that breathe that air every day.<\/p>\n This is a Big Oil giveaway, plain and simple. Last quarter, the oil industry profited<\/a> roughly $39 million an hour thanks to Donald Trump\u2019s gas price crises driven by his reckless Iran war. House Republicans just voted to hand them more.<\/p>\n The kicker? Neither of these Republican resolutions produces a drop of new oil, expands refinery capacity, or lowers gas or diesel prices by a cent, in California or anywhere else. Today, Americans nationwide have spent more than $107 billion<\/a> in extra fuel costs, and it\u2019s wreaking havoc across the U.S. economy. According to a Groundwork Collaborative analysis<\/a>, Big Oil is taking windfall profits and delivering them to shareholders, not American drivers. This past Labor Day weekend, the average nationwide price for a gallon of gas topped $4 a gallon \u2014 the most expensive<\/a> in the history of the holiday, according to AAA. Last week, average diesel fuel prices reached $6 per gallon<\/a> for the first time ever.<\/p>\n California\u2019swaivers build on decades of bipartisan Clean Air Act leadership \u2014 under both Republican and Democratic administrations \u2014 to reduce deadly pollution and protect public health. Analysis found that California\u2019s 2020 At-Berth updated protections are expected to reduce potential cancer risk in California portside communities by approximately 60%, with health benefits estimated at $2.31 billion.<\/p>\n Building California\u2019s clean future, faster<\/p>\n Governor Newsom, in partnership with the legislature, signed SB 7 and SB 149 to help California build critical clean-energy, water, housing, and infrastructure projects faster, while maintaining California\u2019s nation-leading environmental protections and meaningful public participation. By establishing a faster, more predictable process for resolving CEQA litigation, the program helps prevent years of delay for projects that are essential to meeting California\u2019s climate, clean-energy, water-resilience, and affordability goals.<\/p>\n The program is already delivering results: major projects have been certified for judicial streamlining under the current framework, including the Cornucopia Hybrid Project in Fresno County<\/a>, the Easley Renewable Energy Project in Riverside County<\/a>, the Sites Reservoir Project<\/a>, and the Fourth & Central housing project in downtown Los Angeles<\/a>. Together, these projects demonstrate how California can expand clean power, strengthen water security, create good-paying jobs, and build more homes in the places people want to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis project shows what\u2019s possible when multiple benefits work in sync to create something exceptional to meet community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-466659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}