Energy and Climate Change

BIG QUESTIONS LOOM ABOUT EXPANDING CLEAN ENERGY

Even as legislation to raise California's renewable energy targets faltered this week, big questions loom about how California is going to incorpor...

GRIPPING NEW VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS RISKS OF OVERDUE EXTREME STORM, SEA-LEVEL RISE

The threat to the Bay Area of an overdue extreme storm comes into sharp, graphic focus in a new video released last week (Aug. 26) by a coalition o...

WUNDERMAN NAMED ONE OF CA’S TOP 100 MOST POWERFUL (#51)

Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman (who asked that we not run this story - sorry Jim!) on Tuesday (Aug. 25) was named to what has become THE List i...

Preparing the Bay Area FOR a COMING MEGA-STORM

California is learning a hard lesson about inadequate drought preparation. But if California’s hydrological record teaches us anything, it’s th...

FIXING CEQA KEY TO ACHIEVING GOVERNOR’S GREENHOUSE GAS TARGETS

With Gov. Jerry Brown meeting this week with the Pope about climate change and his aggressive new targets for reducing California’s greenhouse ga...

DAVID CUSH PASSES GAVEL AS BAY AREA COUNCIL CHAIR TO MICHAEL COVARRUBIAS

The Bay Area Council Executive Committee and Board of Directors on Thursday (July 17) applauded Virgin America CEO David Cush for his two years of ...

PARCEL TAX FOR FLOOD PROTECTION AND WETLAND RESTORATION MAY FLOAT TO 2016 BALLOT

The San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority took a major step last week (June 29) toward placing a regional parcel tax measure on the June 2016 bal...

BAY AREA COUNCIL POLL CAPTURES RESIDENTS’ THOUGHTS ON Economy, DROUGHT, HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION

The Bay Area Council this week (June 23) released results of our region-wide 2015 Bay Area Council Poll, the only survey of its kind that provides ...

2015 Bay Area Council Poll: Residents Say Soaring Economy May Be Plateauing; Drought, Housing and Crime Surface as Top Issues

Bay Area residents think the region’s super-heated economy may be reaching a plateau, according to results of the 2015 Bay Area Council Poll rele...

A GOVERNOR, THREE MAYORS AND A SECRETARY OF STATE WALKED INTO A CONFERENCE…

With Sacramento awash in tax revenue, Gov. Jerry Brown told a full house of 600 Bay Area business leaders at the 2015 Outlook Conference on Thursda...
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