News

We review local, regional and national news that touches on our work here at BARC. Whether it be renewable energy, rising sea levels, racial segregation or the changing landscape of new laws and new technologies that will shape our communities.

April 10, 2023 — What will it cost to protect the Bay Area from sea level rise? Try $110 billion, says state agency. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission have collaborated to develop a cost estimate for adapting to rising sea level in the SF Bay Region. It...
April 7, 2023 — The Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission have collaborated to develop a cost estimate for adapting to rising sea level in the SF Bay Region. It will not be inexpensive, but the cost of doing nothing is much more. (John King, SF Chronicle)
April 3, 2023 — This year’s series of atmospheric rivers has revived Lake Tulare (once the largest freshwater later west of the Mississippi River), flooding out thousands of farmworkers and disrupting the agricultural industry in the Central Valley. Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/tulare-lake...
March 28, 2023 — Juan Moreno Haines writes from inside San Quentin Prison in https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/imprisoned-with-climate-change/ on the impacts of climate change on the incarcerated; an extremely vulnerable population that often goes unrecognized. Faced with high population density, overcrowded conditions...
March 28, 2023 — A new study quantified the benefits of pollution reduction in terms of race and class. As noted in https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/climate/air-pollution-pm25-health-ef…, by tightening the limits on fine particulate matter from emitters like smokestacks, diesel trucks and...

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