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Fourth District Belatedly Publishes CEQA Opinion Upholding City of Newport Beach’s Approval of Multifamily-Housing Development Pursuant To Addendum To 2006 EIR For Larger Mixed-Use Development

CEQA Developments

Given that the City is fairly built out, there is a dearth of available sites on which to construct multifamily housing, and the City had identified the Center as a possible site for multifamily residential development circa 2006. The project was approved in early 2021 over the objections of one property owner at the Center.

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Droughts Push More People to Migrate Than Floods

Circle of Blue

Indications of migration due to water scarcity and groundwater depletion came as early as 2006 in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley where a combination of declining rainfall and factory farms caused community wells to go dry. “It is not easy to be outside of one’s homeland,” she told Circle of Blue in 2006.

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New State Bill Targets Pollution from Aggregate Facilities

Legal Planet

SCAQMDs Rule 1157, PM10 Emissions from Aggregate and Related Operations, has not been updated since 2006 and permits aggregate facilities to maintain giant piles of crushed debris as close as 301 feet from homes without any restriction on height or size.

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DEP Invites Comments On Draft Community Water System Design Standards Public Water Supply Manual

PA Environment Daily

Prior to these revisions, Part II had not received any major revisions since May 2006 Click Here to download a copy of the draft Part II Manual. Comments are due January 15. Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for information on how to submit comments. Questions should be directed to Michael Hess at michess@pa.gov or (717) 772-5679.

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A new formula for defining a planet still keeps Pluto out of the club

New Scientist

The official definition of a planet, which famously saw Pluto demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006, doesn't really work for worlds outside of our solar system. Now there is a fix – but Pluto is still left out

2006 126
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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

And since 2006, it has been even faster: as high as 4.2 This loss of land ice has been the dominant contributor to sea level rise since 2006. As if that weren’t worrisome enough, studies show that it has been accelerating since the 1960s. Since 1993, sea level has risen by an average rate of 3.1

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Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?

New Scientist

Pluto officially lost its planethood in 2006, and this episode of Dead Planets Society is all about bringing it back by making it bigger, faster and better than ever

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