If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel plant from having to undergo an Environmental Impact Report back in 2008. Back in September, the city ruled that Darling International's plan to add a biodiesel facility capable of producing 7.5 million
Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip hit the racks of our sister paper, the Minneapolis City Pages. Here are a few choice passages from Chris Vogel's story about Pickens, as unlikely a figure as ever to be embraced in green, progres
The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?